Steel mills · Illinois

Chicago Heights Steel

Chicago Heights, IL · ~164 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Heights Steel runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade F.

Chicago Heights Steel: 7.7 TCR = 233% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Heights Steel safety composite

Chicago Heights Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.7

2017→2024

Chicago Heights Steel injury rate improved

Chicago Heights Steel's TCR fell 7.7 from 11.7 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.7 · 2018=7.6 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=8.2 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 233% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #25/28
  • PHOTO Union Electric Steel…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 103 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Union Electric Steel- Carnegie Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Heights Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Heights Steel averages 7.7 TCR (233% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Heights Steel TCR series: 2017=11.7 · 2018=7.6 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=8.2 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Heights Steel falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 28 Steel mills employers in Illinois.

Chicago Heights Steel (164 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Heights Steel
Chicago Heights Steel (164 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Chicago Heights Steel has more employees than the Steel mills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 4.0 1.0 8 0 0
2022 8.2 2.9 14 0 0
2021 9.1 5.4 17 0 0
2020 5.6 3.2 19 0 0
2018 7.6 6.5 26 0 0
2017 11.7 4.3 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IL · Chicago Heights

416 Steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago 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 Union Electric Steel- Carnegie Plant 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Steel INC 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Xcel Steel Pickling 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ESM GROUP INC. - CASTING DIVISION 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Woodhull WOO1 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Belleville 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Long Grove Confectionery Co 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kerry-Melrose Park 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Nowhere Venice, LLC 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ontario Oh - 3259 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dundee Castings Company 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kettle Brook Care Center LLC 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madison Heights 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Super Sagless 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1465 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winnebago Industries 164 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.