Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade · Illinois

FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley

Cherry Valley, IL · ~69 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley safety composite

FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley: 7.1 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2024

FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley's TCR rose 0.7 from 7.1 in 2021 to 7.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332811 · Cherry Valley, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #16/24
  • PHOTO Bodycote Thermal Pro…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bodycote Thermal Processing Inc. - Grand Rapids (0.0 TCR gap)

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FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley TCR series: 2021=7.1 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=2 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley falls in its industry

248 Hardening (i.e., heat treating establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 24 Hardening (i.e., heat treating employers in Illinois.

FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley (69 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley
FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley (69 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2

FPM Heat Treating - Cherry Valley has more employees than the Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals a median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 7.8 6.5 6 0 0
2023 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2022 3.1 1.1 1 2 0
2021 7.1 4.3 3 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332811 · IL · Cherry Valley

248 Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 10 employers in Cherry Valley, 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 Bodycote Thermal Processing Inc. - Grand Rapids 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tejas Tubular Products Casing 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pillar Induction Sterling Heights 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nitrex Inc - Nevada Operations 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer HiBred International Inc. McLeansboro Production 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Litchfield 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2057-Centralia, IL (Monsanto Co.) 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hennepin Power Station 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherry Valley 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR 747 CHERRY VALLEY 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR FPM Heat Treating Cherry Valley 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ringland-Johnson, Inc 82 FTE
NAT-TCR Woods at Merrimack 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6045 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Valley City UT DI 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 3484 North Nashua 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Electro-Miniatures Corp. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gonzalez Ag, Inc 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apex Operations 69 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.