Wood verneer laminating and gluing machines manufacturing · Illinois

Black Brothers Company

Mendota, IL · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Brothers Company runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wood verneer laminating and gluing machines manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Black Brothers Company: 5.7 TCR = 171% of Wood verneer laminating and gluing machines manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Brothers Company safety composite

Black Brothers Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2021→2023

Black Brothers Company injury rate improved

Black Brothers Company's TCR fell 0.4 from 7.8 in 2021 to 7.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=7.8 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333243 · Mendota, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 171% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Con-Vey LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Con-Vey LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Black Brothers Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Brothers Company averages 5.7 TCR (171% of the Wood verneer laminating and gluing machines manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Black Brothers Company TCR series: 2021=7.8 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Black Brothers Company falls in its industry

137 Wood verneer laminating and gl establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 4 Wood verneer laminating and gl employers in Illinois.

Black Brothers Company (58 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Black Brothers Company
Black Brothers Company (58 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Black Brothers Company has fewer employees than the Wood verneer laminating and gluing machi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 7.3 5.5 4 0 0
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2021 7.8 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333243 · IL · Mendota

137 Wood verneer laminating and gluing machines manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 29 employers in Mendota, 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 Con-Vey LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MELLOTT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Softex Paper, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller Manufacturing 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Relay Ops 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - La Salle 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menold Construction and Restoration 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALPA Construction, Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Del Monte Foods Inc. Plant #112 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCC Inc 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR OSF Saint Paul Medical Center 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Paul Medical Center 148 FTE
NAT-TCR Kaiser Home Support Services, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR M Argueso & Co dba Paramelt Muskegon 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Charles T. Sitrin Health Care Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR R.J. Williams, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE FACTS Engineering, LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harris Steel Erectors, Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross Plumbing 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store Construction & Maintenance 58 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.