Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel · Illinois

Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore

Sycamore, IL · ~36 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade B.

Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore safety composite

Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2016→2023

Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore injury rate improved

Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2017=5.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Sycamore, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/14
  • PHOTO Solon Specialty Wire
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Solon Specialty Wire (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=5.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore falls in its industry

163 Drawing iron or steel wire fro establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 14 Drawing iron or steel wire fro employers in Illinois.

Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore (36 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore
Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore (36 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore has fewer employees than the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchase median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.8 2.9 2 0 0
2016 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · IL · Sycamore

163 Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 44 employers in Sycamore, 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 Solon Specialty Wire 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire AZW 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire Products MOW 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Master-Halco, Inc. - Dallas MFG 031 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHI Greenhouse LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE MT ERIE COMPLEX -EST 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Malta 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb County Government 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient-AS-Sycamore Facility-00209 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sycamore 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Suter Company, Inc. 335 FTE
NAT-TCR US CA Ontario Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago Dry 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR RGG Gainesville Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Painting - TX 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Yummy.com PV 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington Avenue Office 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greyhound Pleasantville Garage 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Health Clinic 36 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.