Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Copper & Brass Sales

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

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Copper & Brass Sales runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Copper & Brass Sales: 1.3 TCR = 60% of Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Copper & Brass Sales safety composite

Copper & Brass Sales scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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 & Brass Sales: 0.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Copper & Brass Sales's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.0 in 2023 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Bolingbrook, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 60% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #6/107
  • PHOTO Yarde Metals Inc, No…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yarde Metals Inc, North Carolina (0.0 TCR gap)

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Copper & Brass Sales in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Copper & Brass Sales averages 1.3 TCR (60% 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 & Brass Sales TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Copper & Brass Sales falls in its industry

1,299 Semi-finished metal products m establishments

Safer than 88% 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 #6 safest of 107 Semi-finished metal products m employers in Illinois.

Copper & Brass Sales (29 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 & Brass Sales
Copper & Brass Sales (29 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Copper & Brass Sales has fewer employees than the Semi-finished metal products merchant wh median and a lower 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
2024 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 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 Yarde Metals Inc, North Carolina 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fond du Lac branch 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metals USA Northbrook 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branch 52 1.3 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 Aerotech - Epsilon 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Triton Brands 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Raleigh- Finance Department 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Chateau Ste. Michelle 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Copper & Brass Sales - Milwaukee 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoffman Mechanical Solutions, Inc - Columbia 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Medina 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 403011-Kearsarge | NH | GOF-200 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: 2024, 2023. 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.