Motor vehicle seats manufacturing · Illinois

Freedman Seating Company

Chicago, IL · ~745 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freedman Seating Company runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor vehicle seats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Freedman Seating Company: 6.2 TCR = 115% of Motor vehicle seats manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freedman Seating Company safety composite

Freedman Seating Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−1.9

2016→2024

Freedman Seating Company injury rate improved

Freedman Seating Company's TCR fell 1.9 from 4.1 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 29.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=29.2 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336360 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 6.2 · 115% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO Eissmann Group Autom…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 178 inj
  • SIZE ~745 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eissmann Group Automotive (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freedman Seating Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freedman Seating Company averages 6.2 TCR (115% of the Motor vehicle seats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Freedman Seating Company TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=29.2 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 5.4

Where Freedman Seating Company falls in its industry

384 Motor vehicle seats manufactur establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 Motor vehicle seats manufactur employers in Illinois.

Freedman Seating Company (745 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Freedman Seating Company
Freedman Seating Company (745 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Freedman Seating Company has more employees than the Motor vehicle seats manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.3 1.9 14 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 16 0 0
2022 3.4 2.1 15 3 0
2021 3.5 2.1 17 1 0
2020 5.3 2.2 35 2 0
2019 2.9 2.5 20 3 0
2018 29.2 29.2 26 0 0
2017 2.5 2.5 19 1 0
2016 4.1 4.1 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336360 · IL · Chicago

384 Motor vehicle seats 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 Eissmann Group Automotive 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lear Corporation - Louisville 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lear Corporation - Detroit Nevada 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Borgers Ohio Inc 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DCH6 745 FTE
STATE-SIZE F H Paschen, S N Nielsen & Associates, LLC 744 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Express Incorporated 746 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MDW6 744 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 Port Huron Thrift Store 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR North Central International LLC 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR C.R. Wolfe Heating Corp. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Crest Foods Store 7 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anchorage FO/INFL Alaska 745 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alice Hyde Medical Center 745 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trustbridge, Inc. 745 FTE
NAT-SIZE Torrance Health Association 745 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.