Hydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing · Illinois

Blac Inc

Elmhurst, IL · ~84 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blac Inc runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Blac Inc: 0.6 TCR = 17% of Hydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blac Inc safety composite

Blac Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Blac Inc: 0.0 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.93× in 2024

Blac Inc's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333995 · Elmhurst, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #3/12
  • PHOTO ZAYTRAN, INC.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ZAYTRAN, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blac Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blac Inc averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Hydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Blac Inc TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Blac Inc falls in its industry

137 Hydraulic cylinders, fluid pow establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 12 Hydraulic cylinders, fluid pow employers in Illinois.

Blac Inc (84 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 Blac Inc
Blac Inc (84 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Blac Inc has more employees than the Hydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333995 · IL · Elmhurst

137 Hydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 127 employers in Elmhurst, 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 ZAYTRAN, INC. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AT Controls -Cincinnati 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Training & Technical Center 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aurelius Mfg. Co., Inc. 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Joliet Station 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schomburg & Schomburg Construction Incorporated 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE MEC DE JOINT VENTURE 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premium Concrete Inc. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elmhurst Memorial Hospital 2,864 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Services Inc. 2,331 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elmhurst , IL - 01 1,612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elmhurst Community Unit School 205 1,252 FTE
NAT-TCR Bowers + Kubota Consulting Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus, in Trucking 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR M&C Tech Indiana Corporation 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR First Step Staffing 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Reading, Pa 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Gardens of Scottsdale 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Times Supermarket - Waimalu 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Times Supermarket - Aiea 84 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.