Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants · Illinois

Central Wire Inc. Union, IL

Union, IL · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Central Wire Inc. Union, IL runs at 328% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Central Wire Inc. Union, IL: 10.8 TCR = 328% of Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Wire Inc. Union, IL safety composite

Central Wire Inc. Union, IL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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. Union, IL: 9.2 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2024

Central Wire Inc. Union, IL's TCR rose 3.3 from 9.2 in 2023 to 12.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.77× 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 10.8 · 328% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO Mount Joy Wire Corpo…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mount Joy Wire Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Illinois employers → · Look up another →

Central Wire Inc. Union, IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Wire Inc. Union, IL averages 10.8 TCR (328% of the Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Central Wire Inc. Union, IL TCR series: 2023=9.2 · 2024=12.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Central Wire Inc. Union, IL falls in its industry

163 Barbed and twisted wire made i establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #12 safest of 14 Barbed and twisted wire made i employers in Illinois.

Central Wire Inc. Union, IL (39 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Wire Inc. Union, IL
Central Wire Inc. Union, IL (39 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Central Wire Inc. Union, IL has fewer employees than the Barbed and twisted wire made in wire dra 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
2024 12.5 8.3 3 3 0
2023 9.2 4.6 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · IL · Union

163 Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants 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 Mount Joy Wire Corporation 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR T and T Industries, Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwestern Wire, Inc. 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DBCRinc/GS Steel 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's El Paso 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Glen Nursery, Inc 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Joliet Generating Station 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Bloomington 39 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 WDM 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia Manufacturing Inc 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wabash Jonestown 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4402 - Marshalltown Truss Plant 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Physical Plant 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adjoin Veterans 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-711 THOMLIN MILL ROAD 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nachi Tool America Inc. 39 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. 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.