Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago

Bolingbrook, IL · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago runs at 318% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago: 7.0 TCR = 318% of Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago safety composite

Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago: 4.0 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.43× in 2017

Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago's TCR rose 6.0 from 4.0 in 2016 to 10.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 318% of ind

  • DART 10.0 DART
  • RANK #86/107
  • PHOTO Rolled Metal Product…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rolled Metal Products-South (0.0 TCR gap)

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Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago averages 7.0 TCR (318% of the Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=10 · BLS 2.2

Where Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago falls in its industry

1,299 Semi-finished metal products m establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #86 safest of 107 Semi-finished metal products m employers in Illinois.

Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago (29 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago
Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago (29 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Copper and Brass Sales - Chicago has fewer employees than the Semi-finished metal products merchant wh 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
2017 10.0 10.0 3 0 0
2016 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · Bolingbrook

1,299 Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 243 employers in Bolingbrook, 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 Rolled Metal Products-South 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR State Steel of South Dakota 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 240 E Rosecrans Gardena CA 90248 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chapel steel Corp-location 142 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grant Park 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL-02 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 1,368 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4818-48180018-300 E. CROSSROADS PKWY-WC 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR G&W Electric Company 935 FTE
NAT-TCR 0025 - Louisville East, Ky 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rialto (Cablo) 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartselle Center (Alhar) 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR McKee Foods Corporation-AZ 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0109 - Norfolk, Va 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0097 - Raleigh, Nc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0016 - Modesto, Ca 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-West Roofing Company 29 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: 2017, 2016. 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.