Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade · Illinois

Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc.

Wauconda, IL · ~28 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc. runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade C.

Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc.: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc. safety composite

Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc.: 0.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.9× in 2024

Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Wauconda, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #10/37
  • PHOTO Lincoln Industries -…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lincoln Industries - Main Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc. averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc. TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc. falls in its industry

585 Chrome plating metals and meta establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 37 Chrome plating metals and meta employers in Illinois.

Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc. (28 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc.
Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc. (28 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Duro-Chrome Industries, Inc. has fewer employees than the Chrome plating metals and metal products median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2023 6.3 6.3 1 0 0
2022 5.6 5.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · IL · Wauconda

585 Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 46 employers in Wauconda, 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 Lincoln Industries - Main Plant 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LMI - Tulsa 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIE Coatings, LLC Albuquerque 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seidel, Inc 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Synergy Flavors, Inc. 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acres Group - Wauconda facility 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berger Excavating Contractors 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wauconda, IL 157 FTE
NAT-TCR Switchgear Power Systems, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vogue Laundry & Cleaners Inc 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Johansen Construction Company 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CCNA L.V. Syrup Plant 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE William Kelley Elementary 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Felger Hart Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dc Power Tong LLC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dyersburg Save-A-Lot 28 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.