Motors, gear, manufacturing · Illinois

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp.

St. Charles, IL · ~290 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motors, gear, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp.: 1.2 TCR = 37% of Motors, gear, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. safety composite

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−0.8

2020→2022

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. injury rate improved

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp.'s TCR fell 0.8 from 1.8 in 2020 to 1.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.8 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333612 · St. Charles, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 37% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #4/15
  • PHOTO Cage Gear & Machine …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~290 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cage Gear & Machine LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. averages 1.2 TCR (37% of the Motors, gear, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. TCR series: 2020=1.8 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. falls in its industry

106 Motors, gear, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 15 Motors, gear, manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. (290 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bison Gear & Engineering Corp.
Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. (290 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. has more employees than the Motors, gear, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2022 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2021 0.8 0.3 3 0 0
2020 1.8 1.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333612 · IL · St. Charles

106 Motors, gear, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in St. Charles, 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 Cage Gear & Machine LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cone Drive Operations LUD 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dodge Industrial, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlanta Gear Works Inc 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE MZI Group Inc. 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turano Knead Dough Baking Company 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chester Cake 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marmon 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rukel Management, LLC. 607 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omron Automotive Electronics, Inc. (OEDC) 572 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility of America Corporation 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility America Corporation 439 FTE
NAT-TCR EMD Performance Materials 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0118 Tyson Foods Inc. - Omaha 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Apicore US LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 973 - North Dartmouth 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Keymark Corporation of Florida 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-Ea-Dfw-Dallas Fort Worth-Dfw-Evhe 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Susanville 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clayton Bean Station (927) 290 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.