Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Illinois

Bway Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~405 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bway Chicago runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Bway Chicago: 3.5 TCR = 107% of Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bway Chicago safety composite

Bway Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Bway Chicago held a steady TCR band

Bway Chicago's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.4 in 2022 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.4 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332431 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #12/16
  • PHOTO Horsham Sonoco Metal…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~405 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Horsham Sonoco Metal Packing - D146 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bway Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bway Chicago averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bway Chicago TCR series: 2022=3.4 · 2023=4 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Bway Chicago falls in its industry

217 Steel cans, light gauge metal, establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 16 Steel cans, light gauge metal, employers in Illinois.

Bway Chicago (405 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Bway Chicago
Bway Chicago (405 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Bway Chicago has more employees than the Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 3.1 2.3 15 0 0
2023 4.0 2.9 17 1 0
2022 3.4 2.9 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332431 · IL · Chicago

217 Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in 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 Horsham Sonoco Metal Packing - D146 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ball Beverage Pkg 194 Fort Worth 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Independent Can Company-Belcamp, MD 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CCL Container Hermitage 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mondelez International-Rockford Plant 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE DS Containers 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvest Food Group 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joliet 096 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Hajoca 563 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wichita Ks - 240 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Merl's Towing Service 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PM Transport of Florida, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 72 Hin1000 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fred Haas Toyota World 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paul Reed Smith Guitars 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE MASS Precision, Inc. 405 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. 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.