Cutting dies (e.g., paper, leather, textile) manufacturing · Illinois

Best Cutting Die Company

Skokie, IL · ~120 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Cutting Die Company runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cutting dies (e.g., paper, leather, textile) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Best Cutting Die Company: 4.6 TCR = 139% of Cutting dies (e.g., paper, leather, textile) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Cutting Die Company safety composite

Best Cutting Die Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.0

2020→2024

Best Cutting Die Company injury rate improved

Best Cutting Die Company's TCR fell 2.0 from 5.8 in 2020 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.8 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332216 · Skokie, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #9/17
  • PHOTO International Knife …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Knife and Saw, Inc, (0.0 TCR gap)

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Best Cutting Die Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Cutting Die Company averages 4.6 TCR (139% of the Cutting dies (e.g., paper, leather, textile) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Best Cutting Die Company TCR series: 2020=5.8 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Best Cutting Die Company falls in its industry

174 Cutting dies (e.g., paper, lea establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 17 Cutting dies (e.g., paper, lea employers in Illinois.

Best Cutting Die Company (120 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Best Cutting Die Company
Best Cutting Die Company (120 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Best Cutting Die Company has more employees than the Cutting dies (e.g., paper, leather, text median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 3.8 1.5 5 0 0
2023 6.5 2.9 9 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 3 0 0
2020 5.8 3.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332216 · IL · Skokie

174 Cutting dies (e.g., paper, leather, textile) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 117 employers in Skokie, 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 International Knife and Saw, Inc, 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Design and Manufacturing Company, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edge Manufacturing, Incl 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ragnar Benson 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE TKC Highland 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Constructors 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE 123 - Archer Western/Herzog 4 JV 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Corporation 1,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Skokie Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Mogul 1,123 FTE
CITY-NEAR SKOKIE HOSPITAL 992 FTE
NAT-TCR Pasadena #509 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Universal Plastic Mold, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DP Inc. General Contractors 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 10484 Rocky River 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE NGDS-B209 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wisconsin Humane Society - Milwaukee Campus 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE CRC Industries Inc. - Warminster, PA 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fritcher Construction Services 120 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, 2022, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.