Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing · Illinois

Chicago Blower Corporation

Glendale Heights, IL · ~109 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Blower Corporation runs at 275% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Chicago Blower Corporation: 9.1 TCR = 275% of Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Blower Corporation safety composite

Chicago Blower Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.12 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

Chicago Blower Corporation: 6.6 → 17.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Chicago Blower Corporation's TCR rose 10.9 from 6.6 in 2016 to 17.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333413 · Glendale Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 275% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #24/26
  • PHOTO Shawndra Products, I…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shawndra Products, Incorporated (0.2 TCR gap)

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Chicago Blower Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Blower Corporation averages 9.1 TCR (275% of the Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Blower Corporation TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2020=10.5 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=17.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Blower Corporation falls in its industry

232 Air purification equipment, st establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 26 Air purification equipment, st employers in Illinois.

Chicago Blower Corporation (109 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Blower Corporation
Chicago Blower Corporation (109 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Chicago Blower Corporation has more employees than the Air purification equipment, stationary, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 17.5 6.1 19 1 0
2023 8.3 7.4 10 0 0
2022 2.6 1.8 2 1 0
2020 10.5 5.7 9 2 0
2016 6.6 3.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333413 · IL · Glendale Heights

232 Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 85 employers in Glendale Heights, 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 Shawndra Products, Incorporated 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Research Products Corporation - Aprilaire - Poynette Plant 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frankfort 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mechanovent Corporation / The New York Blower Company 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE PRI1 Princeton, IL 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois American Water (Corperate Office) 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE ibuilders corp 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Chicago Downtown South 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks 626 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist GlenOaks Hospital 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAIN 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kronos Foods 380 FTE
NAT-TCR Mentor Ridge 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR LTAC 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 65X8 - EAN Holdings, LLC South Texas Division 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar Bay West 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Psh Milton Hershey Med Ctr 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE TMX2371 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bison Peak LLC 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smalto, INC. DBA Pemco International 109 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, 2020, 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.