Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Illinois

Bway Lively

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~111 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bway Lively runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bway Lively: 5.8 TCR = 176% of Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bway Lively safety composite

Bway Lively scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2016→2024

Bway Lively injury rate improved

Bway Lively's TCR fell 2.8 from 6.1 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.1 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=6.6 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Elk Grove Village, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #140/175
  • PHOTO Airlane Northwest
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Airlane Northwest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bway Lively in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bway Lively averages 5.8 TCR (176% of the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bway Lively TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=6.6 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Bway Lively falls in its industry

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #140 safest of 175 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib employers in Illinois.

Bway Lively (111 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bway Lively
Bway Lively (111 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Bway Lively has more employees than the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, m 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
2024 3.2 3.2 4 0 0
2023 2.5 1.7 3 0 0
2020 6.6 6.6 8 0 0
2019 5.2 3.7 5 2 0
2018 9.3 8.3 10 0 0
2017 7.8 6.8 8 0 0
2016 6.1 3.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · Elk Grove Village

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, 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 Airlane Northwest 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0403 - Windows-Grinnell 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WNA Lancaster 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Virginia Poly Operations (VPO) 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Powerton Station 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Bellwood Reporting Center 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Contegra Holdings, Inc. and Subsidiaries 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stenstrom Excavation and Blacktop Group 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR creative werks, LLC 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL008 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR Labor Source, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Triton Construction 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Crest Foods Store 6 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ABC Moving Services, Inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE B-Organized Insulation 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laserweld Inc 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kiemle-Hankins - ALL 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Landscape, LLC 111 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, 2020, 2019, 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.