Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing · Illinois

Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant

Urbana, IL · ~141 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant: 3.1 TCR = 58% of Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant safety composite

Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant: 2.2 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.75× in 2024

Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant's TCR rose 4.2 from 2.2 in 2021 to 6.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 58% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #25/41
  • PHOTO DaikyoNishikawa USA …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DaikyoNishikawa USA Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant averages 3.1 TCR (58% of the Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant TCR series: 2021=2.2 · 2022=0.8 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 5.4

Where Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant falls in its industry

772 Trailer hitches, motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #25 safest of 41 Trailer hitches, motor vehicle employers in Illinois.

Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant (141 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 MFG Plant
Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant (141 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Flex-N-Gate MFG Plant has fewer employees than the Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufact median and a lower 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 6.4 5.5 7 0 0
2022 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2021 2.2 0.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · IL · Urbana

772 Trailer hitches, motor vehicle, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 95 employers in Urbana, 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 DaikyoNishikawa USA Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huf North America Automotive Parts Manufacturing Corp. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR X-Cel Industries 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Athens, AL 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Dream Home Improvement, Inc. 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Samron Midwest Contracting 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE PMI Energy Solutions LLC 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Climate Pros-Glendale Heights-Brandon 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Urbana Campus 23,671 FTE
CITY-NEAR CARLE 18,152 FTE
CITY-NEAR CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL 8,566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heart of Mary Medical Center 651 FTE
NAT-TCR Butler- Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. / FFE Transportation 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Neffsville Nursing and Rehabilitation 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ergon Trucking, Inc. - Magnolia 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Martinsville High School 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Earnest Products, Inc. 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terrace of Boca Raton 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE KW Container 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Camp St. Croix 141 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, 2021. 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.