Marine hardware, metal, manufacturing · Illinois

Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company

Franklin Park, IL · ~86 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Marine hardware, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company: 3.5 TCR = 107% of Marine hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company safety composite

Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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 Hardware & Fixture Company: 3.5 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2024

Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.5 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · Franklin Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO Hansen International…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hansen International Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the Marine hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company falls in its industry

189 Marine hardware, metal, manufa establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 17 Marine hardware, metal, manufa employers in Illinois.

Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company (86 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company
Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company (86 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company has more employees than the Marine hardware, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 4.5 1.1 4 0 0
2023 3.5 1.2 3 0 0
2022 3.6 2.4 3 0 0
2021 3.7 2.5 2 1 0
2020 3.6 3.6 3 0 0
2019 3.4 2.3 2 1 0
2018 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2017 3.5 0.0 0 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · IL · Franklin Park

189 Marine hardware, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 127 employers in Franklin Park, 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 Hansen International Inc 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creedmoor Plant 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR dormakaba Winston-Salem 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perko, Inc. 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Germantown Egg Farm 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience PRI1 Princeton,IL 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Gas Company 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Homeway Homes Facility 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILFRA - FRANKLIN PARK HUB 799 FTE
CITY-NEAR FRANKLIN PARK HUB (ILFRA) 740 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sloan Franklin Park 709 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hill Mechanical Corp 703 FTE
NAT-TCR Diamond Attachments, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sequoia Farm Labor Inc 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cass Street 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dan Swayze & Son, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE El Bodegon # 2 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Administration Office and DTAC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE CAG 86 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.