Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors · Illinois

Duane Blanton Round Lake

Round Lake, IL · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Duane Blanton Round Lake runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Duane Blanton Round Lake: 6.8 TCR = 242% of Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Duane Blanton Round Lake safety composite

Duane Blanton Round Lake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.9

2023→2024

Duane Blanton Round Lake injury rate improved

Duane Blanton Round Lake's TCR fell 3.9 from 8.7 in 2023 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.7 · 2024=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Round Lake, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 242% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #200/230
  • PHOTO Atlas Butler
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlas Butler (0.0 TCR gap)

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Duane Blanton Round Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Duane Blanton Round Lake averages 6.8 TCR (242% of the Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Duane Blanton Round Lake TCR series: 2023=8.7 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Duane Blanton Round Lake falls in its industry

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-c establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #200 safest of 230 Heating, ventilation and air-c employers in Illinois.

Duane Blanton Round Lake (24 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 Duane Blanton Round Lake
Duane Blanton Round Lake (24 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Duane Blanton Round Lake has fewer employees than the Heating, ventilation and air-conditionin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2023 8.7 4.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IL · Round Lake

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 20 employers in Round Lake, 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 Atlas Butler 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR A-1 Services, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland One Hour Air Conditioning & Heating 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE C70 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hecate Grid LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG DeKalb Reporting Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roundlake R&D 1,286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baxter/ Round Lake R & D 975 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roundlake, IL -Nationwide Sales Personnel 762 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baxter Healthcare - Round Lake Drug Delivery 549 FTE
NAT-TCR Mshat - Hattiesburg 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ShopRite of Kingston 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR M.G.R. Farm Labor Contractor 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shaw's Southern Belle Frozen Foods 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE GVEC Cuero SOC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE badger environmental & earthworks inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 06 Gering, NE 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE All American Water Restoration, Inc. 24 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.