Belting, rubber (e.g., conveyor, elevator, transmission), manufacturing · Illinois

Gates Rubber Co Galesburg

Galesburg, IL · ~152 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gates Rubber Co Galesburg runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Belting, rubber (e.g., conveyor, elevator, transmission), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Gates Rubber Co Galesburg: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Belting, rubber (e.g., conveyor, elevator, transmission), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gates Rubber Co Galesburg safety composite

Gates Rubber Co Galesburg scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

−1.2

2020→2021

Gates Rubber Co Galesburg injury rate improved

Gates Rubber Co Galesburg's TCR fell 1.2 from 3.7 in 2020 to 2.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.7 · 2021=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326220 · Galesburg, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #5/10
  • PHOTO Gates Corporation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gates Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gates Rubber Co Galesburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gates Rubber Co Galesburg averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Belting, rubber (e.g., conveyor, elevator, transmission), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gates Rubber Co Galesburg TCR series: 2020=3.7 · 2021=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Gates Rubber Co Galesburg falls in its industry

160 Belting, rubber (e.g., conveyo establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 10 Belting, rubber (e.g., conveyo employers in Illinois.

Gates Rubber Co Galesburg (152 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 132 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 Gates Rubber Co Galesburg
Gates Rubber Co Galesburg (152 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 132 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Gates Rubber Co Galesburg has more employees than the Belting, rubber (e.g., conveyor, elevato median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2021 2.5 1.7 3 0 0
2020 3.7 3.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326220 · IL · Galesburg

160 Belting, rubber (e.g., conveyor, elevator, transmission), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 81 employers in Galesburg, 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 Gates Corporation 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mosites Rubber Company, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fluid Connectors : Kennett 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ILPEA Industries - OEM/Miller Div. 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kole Construction Company of Lemont, Inc. 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raymundos Food Group 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE GEHC : Arlington Heights IL, PDx 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haumiller Engineering 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Galesburg CUSD #205 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Mary Medical Center 584 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knox College 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 775 373 FTE
NAT-TCR Bay-Star Insulation of Dallas 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Unity Family Health Care - St Gabriel's P 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Northside Hospital Forsyth 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tate Access Floors - Headquarters 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gardner Inc. 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE M.J. Dean Construction, Inc. 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nhc Healthcare, Cookeville 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Control Point Associates, Inc. 152 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.