Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing · Illinois

E. Gornell & Sons, LLC

Chicago, IL · ~22 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

E. Gornell & Sons, LLC runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

E. Gornell & Sons, LLC: 5.8 TCR = 176% of Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

E. Gornell & Sons, LLC safety composite

E. Gornell & Sons, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

E. Gornell & Sons, LLC held a steady TCR band

E. Gornell & Sons, LLC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=15.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339994 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Wooster Brush Co. - …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 (0.1 TCR gap)

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E. Gornell & Sons, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows E. Gornell & Sons, LLC averages 5.8 TCR (176% of the Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

E. Gornell & Sons, LLC TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=15 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where E. Gornell & Sons, LLC falls in its industry

47 Brushes, household-type and in establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Brushes, household-type and in employers in Illinois.

E. Gornell & Sons, LLC (22 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 119 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate E. Gornell & Sons, LLC
E. Gornell & Sons, LLC (22 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 119 employees and a TCR of 3.0

E. Gornell & Sons, LLC has fewer employees than the Brushes, household-type and industrial, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 15.0 10.0 3 0 0
2022 8.2 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339994 · IL · Chicago

47 Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LINZER PRODUCTS CORP 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pferd Inc. 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tolono Main 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anna Evergreen, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunset 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedarcrest, LLC. 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Michigan Turkey Producers LLC - Hall Street 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DC 52 - Albuquerque 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LaGuardia Houses 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gastineau Elementary 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE A.J. Camerons Sod Farm Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE ICS-Great Plains, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE ICS-CargoClean LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE A&L Siding and Home Improvement Center, Inc. 22 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. 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.