Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · Illinois

Erect-A-Tube, Inc.

Harvard, IL · ~29 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Erect-A-Tube, Inc. runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Erect-A-Tube, Inc.: 6.0 TCR = 181% of Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Erect-A-Tube, Inc. safety composite

Erect-A-Tube, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Erect-A-Tube, Inc.: 0.0 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2024

Erect-A-Tube, Inc.'s TCR rose 7.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 7.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332311 · Harvard, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 181% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Dewey Establishment
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dewey Establishment (0.0 TCR gap)

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Erect-A-Tube, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Erect-A-Tube, Inc. averages 6.0 TCR (181% of the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Erect-A-Tube, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=11.8 · 2021=10.4 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Erect-A-Tube, Inc. falls in its industry

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Buildings, prefabricated metal employers in Illinois.

Erect-A-Tube, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Erect-A-Tube, Inc.
Erect-A-Tube, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Erect-A-Tube, Inc. has fewer employees than the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 7.9 7.9 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 10.4 10.4 3 0 0
2020 11.8 7.8 3 0 0
2019 8.2 8.2 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332311 · IL · Harvard

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 26 employers in Harvard, 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 Dewey Establishment 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michigan City CSM 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saramark, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poly-Tex--Commercial 5.9 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 Harvard PetDine 397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pedigree Ovens Inc 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR True Value Company RDC - Harvard 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR True Value Harvard RDC 203 FTE
NAT-TCR 301 Travis - Therm-Tech of Waukesha, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Maravilla Scottsdale 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ridgeway Plumbing, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kenworth Truck Company Renton 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bayhead Products Corp 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens Industries, Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE church facility 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merrimac Spool & Reel 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.