Castings, steel (except investment), unfinished, manufacturing · Illinois

Branchfield Casting Inc

Galva, IL · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Branchfield Casting Inc runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Castings, steel (except investment), unfinished, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Branchfield Casting Inc: 6.4 TCR = 194% of Castings, steel (except investment), unfinished, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Branchfield Casting Inc safety composite

Branchfield Casting Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Branchfield Casting Inc: 0.0 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2018

Branchfield Casting Inc's TCR rose 12.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 12.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331513 · Galva, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 194% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Sandusky Internation…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sandusky International Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Branchfield Casting Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Branchfield Casting Inc averages 6.4 TCR (194% of the Castings, steel (except investment), unfinished, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Branchfield Casting Inc TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=12.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Branchfield Casting Inc falls in its industry

94 Castings, steel (except invest establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.3.

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 4 Castings, steel (except invest employers in Illinois.

Branchfield Casting Inc (25 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 7.3 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Branchfield Casting Inc
Branchfield Casting Inc (25 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 7.3

Branchfield Casting Inc has fewer employees than the Castings, steel (except investment), unf median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.3. 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 12.8 9.6 3 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331513 · IL · Galva

94 Castings, steel (except investment), unfinished, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Galva, 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 Sandusky International Division 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR McConway & Torley, LLC (Arcosa) 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coronado Steel Co 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bradken Inc 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Emerald Mound Lebanon Fire Department 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steve Piper and Sons, Inc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Meter Services North 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Galva - IL 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dixline Corporation 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big River Resources Galva, LLC 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR John H. Best 37 FTE
NAT-TCR 6091-SS027U 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - West Allen 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lelm-Hct-Little Elm 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Greeley (Cogre) 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Penn Pallet Inc - Woodland 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution - San Antonio TX 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville Algo Terminal 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wingate Apartments 25 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. 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.