Lighting fixtures, residential electric, manufacturing · Illinois

Generation Brands Skokie

Skokie, IL · ~485 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Generation Brands Skokie runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lighting fixtures, residential electric, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Generation Brands Skokie: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Lighting fixtures, residential electric, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Generation Brands Skokie safety composite

Generation Brands Skokie scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−1.1

2016→2017

Generation Brands Skokie injury rate improved

Generation Brands Skokie's TCR fell 1.1 from 4.8 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.8 · 2017=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335121 · Skokie, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Contemporary Visions
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~485 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Contemporary Visions (0.0 TCR gap)

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Generation Brands Skokie in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Generation Brands Skokie averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Lighting fixtures, residential electric, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Generation Brands Skokie TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Generation Brands Skokie falls in its industry

41 Lighting fixtures, residential establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Lighting fixtures, residential employers in Illinois.

Generation Brands Skokie (485 employees, TCR 4.3) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 4.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Generation Brands Skokie
Generation Brands Skokie (485 employees, TCR 4.3) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Generation Brands Skokie has more employees than the Lighting fixtures, residential electric, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2017 3.7 3.1 18 0 0
2016 4.8 4.8 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335121 · IL · Skokie

41 Lighting fixtures, residential electric, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 117 employers in Skokie, 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 Contemporary Visions 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR W Schonbek LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acuity Brands Lighting WRDC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR APPARATUS, LLC 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE McCain Foods #6 485 FTE
STATE-SIZE Event Media, Inc 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caseyville Plant 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill 486 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Corporation 1,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Skokie Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Mogul 1,123 FTE
CITY-NEAR SKOKIE HOSPITAL 992 FTE
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Harborview 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Caliber, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Mira Loma-Building 1 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR NAPP Cambridge 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trenton (Njtrn) 485 FTE
NAT-SIZE MA0148CN2 485 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amzl : Dpp1 485 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pella Corporation Carroll Site 485 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: 2017, 2016. 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.