Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Illinois

Flex-N-Gate Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~544 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flex-N-Gate Chicago runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Flex-N-Gate Chicago: 4.5 TCR = 84% of Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flex-N-Gate Chicago safety composite

Flex-N-Gate Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−3.2

2023→2024

Flex-N-Gate Chicago injury rate improved

Flex-N-Gate Chicago's TCR fell 3.2 from 6.1 in 2023 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.1 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 84% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #32/41
  • PHOTO Oakley - Flint
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~544 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oakley - Flint (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flex-N-Gate Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flex-N-Gate Chicago averages 4.5 TCR (84% of the Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Flex-N-Gate Chicago TCR series: 2023=6.1 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 5.4

Where Flex-N-Gate Chicago falls in its industry

772 Bumpers and bumperettes assemb establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 41 Bumpers and bumperettes assemb employers in Illinois.

Flex-N-Gate Chicago (544 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Flex-N-Gate Chicago
Flex-N-Gate Chicago (544 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Flex-N-Gate Chicago has more employees than the Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, autom median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 2.9 2.0 13 0 0
2023 6.1 2.6 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · IL · Chicago

772 Bumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, 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 Oakley - Flint 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR M+H Fayetteville Plant 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flex N Gate Troy LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SEJONG ALABAMA LLC 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas Marengo 544 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roseland Community Hospital 544 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago North 545 FTE
STATE-SIZE OSI Group, LLC 545 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 MOM's Organic Market - Gaithersburg 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Horizon Manufacturing Group 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR John Ray & Sons 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Allied Waste Systems, Inc. DBA Allied Waste Services of Pierson//Republic Services of Pierson 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hyatt Regency Seattle 544 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Foods Plymouth 544 FTE
NAT-SIZE Friendship Village Sunset Hills 544 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Dane Trailers 544 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.