Mausoleum (i.e., building) construction · Illinois

Bell's Better Building

Chicago, IL · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bell's Better Building runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mausoleum (i.e., building) construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Bell's Better Building: 5.5 TCR = 191% of Mausoleum (i.e., building) construction BLS 2.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bell's Better Building safety composite

Bell's Better Building scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Bell's Better Building: 0.0 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Bell's Better Building's TCR rose 11.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 11.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 191% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #148/169
  • PHOTO Pelletier Builders LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pelletier Builders LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bell's Better Building in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Bell's Better Building averages 5.5 TCR (191% of the Mausoleum (i.e., building) construction BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Bell's Better Building TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 2.9

Where Bell's Better Building falls in its industry

4,692 Mausoleum (i.e., building) con establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #148 safest of 169 Mausoleum (i.e., building) con employers in Illinois.

Bell's Better Building (23 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Bell's Better Building
Bell's Better Building (23 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Bell's Better Building has fewer employees than the Mausoleum (i.e., building) construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 11.1 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · IL · Chicago

4,692 Mausoleum (i.e., building) construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Pelletier Builders LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITV Associates, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota - Midwest Livestock Systems, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR J.H. Hassinger,Inc. 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Duke Pacific Inc 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Magnetic Specialties Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbor Walk Healthcare Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Element Resources 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tri-State Industrial Contractors, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pomona SSYAP LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE GullWing Beach Resort 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Mississippi Pole Company 23 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.