Industrial building (except warehouses) construction · Illinois

Ficek Electric & Communication Systems

La Salle, IL · ~68 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ficek Electric & Communication Systems runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Industrial building (except warehouses) construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Ficek Electric & Communication Systems: 3.4 TCR = 118% of Industrial building (except warehouses) construction BLS 2.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ficek Electric & Communication Systems safety composite

Ficek Electric & Communication Systems scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−6.1

2016→2022

Ficek Electric & Communication Systems injury rate improved

Ficek Electric & Communication Systems's TCR fell 6.1 from 8.3 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.3 · 2017=2.0 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=5.0 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236210 · La Salle, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 118% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/33
  • PHOTO Sjostrom & Sons, Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sjostrom & Sons, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ficek Electric & Communication Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ficek Electric & Communication Systems averages 3.4 TCR (118% of the Industrial building (except warehouses) construction BLS benchmark).

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

Ficek Electric & Communication Systems TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=2 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=5 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=2.2 · BLS 2.9

Where Ficek Electric & Communication Systems falls in its industry

924 Industrial building (except wa establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #26 safest of 33 Industrial building (except wa employers in Illinois.

Ficek Electric & Communication Systems (68 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Ficek Electric & Communication Systems
Ficek Electric & Communication Systems (68 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Ficek Electric & Communication Systems has fewer employees than the Industrial building (except warehouses) 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
2022 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2019 5.0 5.0 3 0 0
2018 2.7 1.4 2 0 0
2017 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2016 8.3 4.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236210 · IL · La Salle

924 Industrial building (except warehouses) construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 12 employers in La Salle, 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 Sjostrom & Sons, Inc 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clinton, IA 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waisman Construction Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BEEM Construction Inc 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fernlea Nurseries -MAG 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva STJ1 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2057-Centralia, IL 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Rockford Service Center 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR XLA 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Department of Veterans' Affair 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR J B Contracting Corp 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of La Salle 63 FTE
NAT-TCR 543 - Wayne 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 579 - Lima 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ril- Att 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wolfe Electric, Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tops #364 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #540 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cadence Huntersville 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northeast STIHL 68 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: 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.