Barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Illinois

Chicago Illinois

Chicago, IL · ~23 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Illinois runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Chicago Illinois: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Illinois safety composite

Chicago Illinois scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 Illinois: 0.0 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 6.03× in 2024

Chicago Illinois's TCR rose 5.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 5.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 6.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #1/15
  • PHOTO Berenfield Container…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berenfield Containers SE, Ltd. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Chicago Illinois in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Illinois averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Illinois TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Illinois falls in its industry

175 Barrels, light gauge metal, ma establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 15 Barrels, light gauge metal, ma employers in Illinois.

Chicago Illinois (23 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Illinois
Chicago Illinois (23 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Chicago Illinois has fewer employees than the Barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · IL · Chicago

175 Barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Berenfield Containers SE, Ltd. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Georgetown MFG (GTS,SWS) 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office and Shop, Rule Steel 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif Houston Steel drum 2 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Bunting and Murray Construction Corp 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fugro USA Land - Rapid City 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Polaris Inc. Milford East 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Headquarters 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fall Creek Logging. Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hartzell Hardwoods Kirksville 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conwaste Cabo Rojo 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Infinity Metals, Inc. 23 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.