Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Illinois

Global Gear & Machining

Downers Grove, IL · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Global Gear & Machining runs at 256% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Global Gear & Machining: 13.8 TCR = 256% of Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Global Gear & Machining safety composite

Global Gear & Machining scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Global Gear & Machining: 9.9 → 17.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 17.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2020

Global Gear & Machining's TCR rose 7.9 from 9.9 in 2019 to 17.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Downers Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 256% of ind

  • DART 17.7 DART
  • RANK #35/35
  • PHOTO Rochester Manufactur…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rochester Manufacturing Facility (0.1 TCR gap)

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Global Gear & Machining in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Global Gear & Machining averages 13.8 TCR (256% of the Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Global Gear & Machining TCR series: 2019=9.9 · 2020=17.7 · BLS 5.4

Where Global Gear & Machining falls in its industry

320 Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, sp establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 35 Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, sp employers in Illinois.

Global Gear & Machining (95 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Global Gear & Machining
Global Gear & Machining (95 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Global Gear & Machining has fewer employees than the Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), aut median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2020 17.7 17.7 6 7 0
2019 9.9 7.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · IL · Downers Grove

320 Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 139 employers in Downers Grove, 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 Rochester Manufacturing Facility 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR WESTPORT MANUFACTURING (ALLENTOWN, PA) 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inland Truck Parts Company 36 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Light Vehicle Transmissions Knoxville 13.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glenwood Reporting Center 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Astro Insulation #287 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE UJAMAA CONSTRUCTION INC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vissering Construction Company 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Medical Group 5,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Support Centers 2,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital 1,958 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADVOCATE CHILDRENS HOSPITALS 1,734 FTE
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dsm1 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR SMT Lines - SAT 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Augusta Ranch Animal Hospital 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clear Lake - Resort 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gemmy Industries Corp. 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wingate on Blackstone 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson Hospital 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridgepoint Center 95 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.