Furnace filters manufacturing · Illinois

Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere)

Belvidere, IL · ~140 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere) runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Furnace filters manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere): 2.0 TCR = 61% of Furnace filters manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere) safety composite

Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere) held a steady TCR band

Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere)'s TCR held near 0.3 from 1.8 in 2022 to 2.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.8 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333413 · Belvidere, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #9/26
  • PHOTO Swegon USA Inc. - Te…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swegon USA Inc. - Tennessee (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere) averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Furnace filters manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere) TCR series: 2022=1.8 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere) falls in its industry

232 Furnace filters manufacturing establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 26 Furnace filters manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere) (140 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere)
Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere) (140 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere) has more employees than the Furnace filters manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 2.2 1.6 4 0 0
2023 2.1 1.0 4 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333413 · IL · Belvidere

232 Furnace filters manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 74 employers in Belvidere, 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 Swegon USA Inc. - Tennessee 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Multi-Wing America, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Camfil-Austin (746) 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kilgore 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE LEM Decatur 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt Carmel Stabilization Group, Inc. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE A Lamp Concrete Contractors 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE FE Moran Fire Protection Northern Illinois 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belvidere Assembly Plant 3,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magna Exterirors Belvidere 655 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills (Belvidere) 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills Operations, LLC. 560 FTE
NAT-TCR Pink Van Enterprises, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR K&W Roofing 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Andersen Logistics - Garland 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Velva Oilseeds 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Autism Learning Partners Fresno 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE 056-PL001 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brighton Post Acute 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paragon Potato Farm 140 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.