Spinning unfinished metal products · Illinois

Columbia Metal Spinning

Chicago, IL · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia Metal Spinning runs at 418% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Spinning unfinished metal products workplace, earning a grade F.

Columbia Metal Spinning: 13.8 TCR = 418% of Spinning unfinished metal products BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia Metal Spinning safety composite

Columbia Metal Spinning scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Columbia Metal Spinning: 4.8 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 25.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

Columbia Metal Spinning's TCR rose 6.8 from 4.8 in 2020 to 11.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 25.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332119 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 418% of ind

  • DART 11.6 DART
  • RANK #47/49
  • PHOTO RAO Manufacturing #1
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RAO Manufacturing #1 (0.2 TCR gap)

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Columbia Metal Spinning in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia Metal Spinning averages 13.8 TCR (418% of the Spinning unfinished metal products BLS benchmark).

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

Columbia Metal Spinning TCR series: 2020=4.8 · 2021=25 · 2024=11.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Columbia Metal Spinning falls in its industry

477 Spinning unfinished metal prod establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 49 Spinning unfinished metal prod employers in Illinois.

Columbia Metal Spinning (40 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbia Metal Spinning
Columbia Metal Spinning (40 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Columbia Metal Spinning has fewer employees than the Spinning unfinished metal products median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 11.6 11.6 4 0 0
2021 25.0 25.0 9 0 0
2020 4.8 4.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332119 · IL · Chicago

477 Spinning unfinished metal products 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 RAO Manufacturing #1 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Industries, Watertown 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BEEHLER CORPORATION 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR GEM MANUFACTURING CO., INC. PLANT 2 14.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Integrity Management 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Bloomington Reporting Center 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Downers Grove Sanitary District 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Window Works Addison 40 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 Casemer Tool and Machine, Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR OR-Aurora 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR United Pallet Services, Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LMMM San Antonio #4, LTD 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE SpringDot Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bouma Corporation: Traverse City 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnston Casuals Furniture 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boyd Metals of Little Rock, Arkansas 40 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, 2021, 2020. 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.