Metals Service Centers · Illinois

Chicago (Metron)

Chicago, IL · ~79 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago (Metron) runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Metals Service Centers workplace, earning a grade D.

Chicago (Metron): 4.2 TCR = 189% of Metals Service Centers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago (Metron) safety composite

Chicago (Metron) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

Chicago (Metron) held a steady TCR band

Chicago (Metron)'s TCR held near 0.3 from 4.0 in 2021 to 4.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.0 · 2022=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 189% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #58/107
  • PHOTO Alaska Steel Company
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alaska Steel Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago (Metron) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago (Metron) averages 4.2 TCR (189% of the Metals Service Centers BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago (Metron) TCR series: 2021=4 · 2022=4.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Chicago (Metron) falls in its industry

1,299 Metals Service Centers establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 107 Metals Service Centers employers in Illinois.

Chicago (Metron) (79 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago (Metron)
Chicago (Metron) (79 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Chicago (Metron) has more employees than the Metals Service Centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 4.3 2.9 2 1 0
2021 4.0 1.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · Chicago

1,299 Metals Service Centers 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 Alaska Steel Company 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quad Cities Branch 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Copper and Brass Sales - Smithfield 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charlotte Processing Dist-2023 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE NG Crestwood Reporting Center 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodmark ,LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Calumet City Plumbing Company and Heating 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Village of Niles Public Works 79 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 USM Store #511 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hume Contracting LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Quest Engineering 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley Park 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4795-Aa-Iad-Washington - Dulles-Iad-Trml 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-AA-ONT-ONTARIO-ONT-TRML 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE French Trucking Inc 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE NAPA Auto Parts 79 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: 2022, 2021. 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.