Abrasive products manufacturing · Illinois

Camel Grinding Wheels

Niles, IL · ~63 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Camel Grinding Wheels runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Abrasive products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Camel Grinding Wheels: 7.3 TCR = 220% of Abrasive products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Camel Grinding Wheels safety composite

Camel Grinding Wheels scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Camel Grinding Wheels: 6.2 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2024

Camel Grinding Wheels's TCR rose 0.5 from 6.2 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327910 · Niles, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 220% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #10/13
  • PHOTO Saint- Gobain
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saint- Gobain (0.0 TCR gap)

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Camel Grinding Wheels in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Camel Grinding Wheels averages 7.3 TCR (220% of the Abrasive products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Camel Grinding Wheels TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=9 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=15.5 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Camel Grinding Wheels falls in its industry

90 Abrasive products manufacturin establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 13 Abrasive products manufacturin employers in Illinois.

Camel Grinding Wheels (63 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Camel Grinding Wheels
Camel Grinding Wheels (63 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Camel Grinding Wheels has more employees than the Abrasive products manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 6.7 2.2 3 0 0
2023 15.5 15.5 7 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2021 9.0 6.7 4 0 0
2020 6.7 4.5 3 0 0
2019 4.5 0.0 2 0 0
2016 6.2 4.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327910 · IL · Niles

90 Abrasive products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 111 employers in Niles, 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 Saint- Gobain 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minerals Research, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acme Abrasives 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global Abrasives, Inc. - 378 Niagara Street 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waterman, IL-STC 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hinsdale Nurseries, Inc. Plano 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE 40L - IL Relay & Ops 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water/Public Works, Public Utiities 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aerospace Business Groups : Niles 1,010 FTE
CITY-NEAR Airframe Systems : Niles 978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shure Incorporated 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3320 683 FTE
NAT-TCR Sansbury Care Center 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Paterson 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CableCom, LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Humtown Products, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Market 011 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Market 021 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Market 061 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Market 085 63 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.