Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing · Illinois

Blachford Investments Inc.

West Chicago, IL · ~109 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blachford Investments Inc. runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Blachford Investments Inc.: 4.7 TCR = 143% of Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blachford Investments Inc. safety composite

Blachford Investments Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Blachford Investments Inc.: 1.2 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2018

Blachford Investments Inc.'s TCR rose 4.3 from 1.2 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · West Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 143% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #18/20
  • PHOTO Buckley Industries, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Buckley Industries, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blachford Investments Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blachford Investments Inc. averages 4.7 TCR (143% of the Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Blachford Investments Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Blachford Investments Inc. falls in its industry

474 Cushions, carpet and rug, uret establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #18 safest of 20 Cushions, carpet and rug, uret employers in Illinois.

Blachford Investments Inc. (109 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Blachford Investments Inc.
Blachford Investments Inc. (109 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Blachford Investments Inc. has more employees than the Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and o median and a higher 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
2018 5.5 3.7 6 0 0
2017 7.5 5.4 7 0 0
2016 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · IL · West Chicago

474 Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West 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 Buckley Industries, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SEKISUI Voltek, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hunter Panels - Montgomery 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fehrer Automotive- Gadsden 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE PRI1 Princeton, IL 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois American Water (Corperate Office) 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE ibuilders corp 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Chicago Downtown South 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Elk Ridge Village Assisted Living 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR henry g meigs 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hess Trucking Harrisburg 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Electrical Design & Motor Control, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE OCY - Plymouth 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Watershed - Corporate 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azz Psi 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corrugated Supplies Company- Atlanta, LLC. 109 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.