Manufacturing building construction · Illinois

Fabrication Specialties Inc.

Bridgeview, IL · ~67 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fabrication Specialties Inc. runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Manufacturing building construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Fabrication Specialties Inc.: 2.5 TCR = 87% of Manufacturing building construction BLS 2.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fabrication Specialties Inc. safety composite

Fabrication Specialties Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−2.3

2017→2024

Fabrication Specialties Inc. injury rate improved

Fabrication Specialties Inc.'s TCR fell 2.3 from 3.8 in 2017 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.8 · 2022=2.3 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236210 · Bridgeview, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 87% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #21/33
  • PHOTO Nova Pressroom Produ…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nova Pressroom Products LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fabrication Specialties Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fabrication Specialties Inc. averages 2.5 TCR (87% of the Manufacturing building construction BLS benchmark).

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

Fabrication Specialties Inc. TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2022=2.3 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 2.9

Where Fabrication Specialties Inc. falls in its industry

924 Manufacturing building constru establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 33 Manufacturing building constru employers in Illinois.

Fabrication Specialties Inc. (67 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Fabrication Specialties Inc.
Fabrication Specialties Inc. (67 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Fabrication Specialties Inc. has fewer employees than the Manufacturing building construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2017 3.8 3.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236210 · IL · Bridgeview

924 Manufacturing building construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 65 employers in Bridgeview, 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 Nova Pressroom Products LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson Contractor Group, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mavid Construction Sevices LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CR Meyer - Green Bay 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decatur Cogeneration 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE SWECO - Chicago 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Galesburg 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE 75G - Western S - IL Gas Ops 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCNA Prairie LLC 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foodservice : BRIDGEVIEW 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bridgeview 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR CC 300654 BRIDGEVIEW PLT 374 FTE
NAT-TCR Bunn Excavating Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Spirit Aerosystems Oklahoma 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CHA 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PITT- Perch 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mercedes Medical LLC 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kokomo 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Concord Finance 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Touchpoints Therapy LLC 67 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, 2022, 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.