Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing · Illinois
Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin
Elgin, IL · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 13.9
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin runs at 420% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 13.9
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 28
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin's OSHA Total Case Rate of 13.9 to the Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (420% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin falls in its industry
875 Concrete products, precast (ex establishmentsSafer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.
Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 36 Concrete products, precast (ex employers in Illinois.
Trend analysis for Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin
Between 2016 and 2018, Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin's Total Case Rate worsened from 12.8 to 17.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 38% increase across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 11.2, while 2018 saw the highest rate, at 17.6, a spread of 6.5 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin recorded 28 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 28 injuries shown on this page for Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 327390 - Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2018)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
11 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 147,392 hours worked = 14.93 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin (this establishment) | 13.87 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 327390 |
| Illinois state avg (all industries) | 4.73 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2018: 13 reportable incidents · 13 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 7 reportable incidents · 7 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 8 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 17.6 | 14.9 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 11.2 | 11.2 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 12.8 | 9.6 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin's reported OSHA injury record versus its Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 420% of the Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing benchmark, Concrete Specialties Company-Elgin reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.