Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing · Illinois

Flexco - Downers Grove

Downers Grove, IL · ~321 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flexco - Downers Grove runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Flexco - Downers Grove: 2.8 TCR = 84% of Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flexco - Downers Grove safety composite

Flexco - Downers Grove scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.8

2022→2024

Flexco - Downers Grove injury rate improved

Flexco - Downers Grove's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.0 in 2022 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.0 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · Downers Grove, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #7/17
  • PHOTO Knape & Vogt Eastern…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~321 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Knape & Vogt Eastern Warehouse (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flexco - Downers Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flexco - Downers Grove averages 2.8 TCR (84% of the Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Flexco - Downers Grove TCR series: 2022=4 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Flexco - Downers Grove falls in its industry

189 Aircraft hardware, metal, manu establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 17 Aircraft hardware, metal, manu employers in Illinois.

Flexco - Downers Grove (321 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Flexco - Downers Grove
Flexco - Downers Grove (321 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Flexco - Downers Grove has more employees than the Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 3.2 1.4 6 1 0
2023 1.1 0.8 3 0 0
2022 4.0 2.9 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · IL · Downers Grove

189 Aircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 139 employers in Downers Grove, 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 Knape & Vogt Eastern Warehouse 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TydenBrooks SPG 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marlboro Manufacturing Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medeco Security Locks, Inc. 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Element Food Solution 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1531 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5398 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2728 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Medical Group 5,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Support Centers 2,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital 1,958 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADVOCATE CHILDRENS HOSPITALS 1,734 FTE
NAT-TCR Materion - Lorain 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Field Services 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR General Mills / Gardettos 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lighthouse Acute Center 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kennedy Pavilion Rh LLC 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Braun Industries 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gradall Industries, LLC New Philadelphia 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warhorse Casino Lincoln 321 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.