Bellows, hand, manufacturing · Illinois

Flex-Weld Manufacturing

Woodstock, IL · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flex-Weld Manufacturing runs at 425% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bellows, hand, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Flex-Weld Manufacturing: 14.0 TCR = 425% of Bellows, hand, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flex-Weld Manufacturing safety composite

Flex-Weld Manufacturing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Flex-Weld Manufacturing held a steady TCR band

Flex-Weld Manufacturing's TCR held near 0.2 from 14.8 in 2022 to 14.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=14.8 · 2023=12.7 · 2024=14.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Woodstock, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.0 · 425% of ind

  • DART 14.6 DART
  • RANK #58/58
  • PHOTO CONSTRUCTION
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CONSTRUCTION (0.1 TCR gap)

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Flex-Weld Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flex-Weld Manufacturing averages 14.0 TCR (425% of the Bellows, hand, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Flex-Weld Manufacturing TCR series: 2022=14.8 · 2023=12.7 · 2024=14.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Flex-Weld Manufacturing falls in its industry

827 Bellows, hand, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 58 Bellows, hand, manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Flex-Weld Manufacturing (28 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Flex-Weld Manufacturing
Flex-Weld Manufacturing (28 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Flex-Weld Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Bellows, hand, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 14.6 14.6 4 0 0
2023 12.7 12.7 4 0 0
2022 14.8 11.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · IL · Woodstock

827 Bellows, hand, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 52 employers in Woodstock, 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 CONSTRUCTION 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PTN-Pueblo 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olson Fabrication, Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sportworks Northwest, Inc. 14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR CENTEGRA HOSPITAL WOODSTOCK 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodstock Sterile Solutions 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3434 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3434 310 FTE
NAT-TCR Thompson Heating and Cooling Service 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Suburban Waste MN LLC 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 911 Production 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Provantage Corporate Solutions, LLC 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Viking Range, LLC - Corporate & IT Offices 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE MercyCare Vernon Village 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE G&C Multi-Services, LLC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Indiana Truss LLC 28 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. 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.