Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products · Illinois

Central Wire Inc Illinois

Union, IL · ~43 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Wire Inc Illinois runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products workplace, earning a grade F.

Central Wire Inc Illinois: 7.5 TCR = 227% of Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Wire Inc Illinois safety composite

Central Wire Inc Illinois scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Central Wire Inc Illinois: 8.1 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2022

Central Wire Inc Illinois's TCR rose 3.9 from 8.1 in 2018 to 11.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Union, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 227% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO Liberty Wire Johnstown
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Liberty Wire Johnstown (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Wire Inc Illinois in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Wire Inc Illinois averages 7.5 TCR (227% of the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products BLS benchmark).

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

Central Wire Inc Illinois TCR series: 2018=8.1 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=11.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Central Wire Inc Illinois falls in its industry

163 Drawing iron or steel wire fro establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 14 Drawing iron or steel wire fro employers in Illinois.

Central Wire Inc Illinois (43 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Wire Inc Illinois
Central Wire Inc Illinois (43 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Central Wire Inc Illinois has fewer employees than the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchase median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2022 11.9 9.6 5 0 0
2021 7.8 7.8 3 0 0
2020 2.5 0.0 0 1 0
2019 7.1 4.7 3 0 0
2018 8.1 8.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · IL · Union

163 Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 9 employers in Union, 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 Liberty Wire Johnstown 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Wire Inc SC 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire Products - Gallatin, TN 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Loucks Mill 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stratum Reservoir, LLC - Champaign 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - East St. Louis 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manlove Storage Field 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Intren, LLC 1,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR INTREN, LLC - ILLINOIS 710 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bag Makers, Inc 318 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miceli Drapery Company, Inc. 132 FTE
NAT-TCR Versiti Waukesha 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fox Valley Tool & Die Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR (21) JX Location 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 413752-Honesdale Po 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE NOV Fiber Glass Systems - Wichita 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adult Probation 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE FSM-ODFL 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG820 43 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.