Plumbing fixture fittings and trim, all materials, manufacturing · Illinois

Guardian Equipment Inc.

Name: Guardian Equipment Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Chicago, IL · ~80 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Guardian Equipment Inc. runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plumbing fixture fittings and trim, all materials, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Guardian Equipment Inc.: 6.2 TCR = 189% of Plumbing fixture fittings and trim, all materials, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Guardian Equipment Inc. safety composite

Guardian Equipment Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−5.2

2023→2024

Guardian Equipment Inc. injury rate improved

Guardian Equipment Inc.'s TCR fell 5.2 from 8.8 in 2023 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.8 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332913 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 189% of ind

DART 3.6 DART
RANK #4/4
PHOTO Brasscraft Swedesboro
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brasscraft Swedesboro (0.1 TCR gap)

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Keystone Found

6.5
Manufacturing

6.3
This site

6.2
Brasscraft Swe

6.2
Lehigh Valley

6

What this shows Guardian Equipment Inc. averages 6.2 TCR (189% of the Plumbing fixture fittings and trim, all materials, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Guardian Equipment Inc. TCR series: 2023=8.8 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Guardian Equipment Inc. falls in its industry

73 Plumbing fixture fittings and establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Plumbing fixture fittings and employers in Illinois.

Guardian Equipment Inc. (80 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Guardian Equipment Inc. has fewer employees than the Plumbing fixture fittings and trim, all median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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	3.6	3.6	3	0	0
2023	8.8	8.8	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332913 · IL · Chicago

73 Plumbing fixture fittings and trim, all materials, 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Brasscraft Swedesboro	SWEDESBORO, NJ	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Manufacturing	HUNTINGTON BEAH, CA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lehigh Valley Manufacturing	ALLENTOWN, PA	6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Keystone Foundry Division	ERIE, PA	6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Rural Electric Convenience Cooperative	AUBURN	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Crestwood Reporting Center	CRESTWOOD	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Gas Ops	URBANA	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	74G - Eastern - IL Gas Ops	URBANA	80 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago Public Schools	Chicago	49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago/Corporate	Chicago	18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Illinois at Chicago	Chicago	13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University Health Service UIC UIC Campus	Chicago	12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR	Related Management Company LP The Caledonia	New York, NY	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	NCP Coatings, LLC	Niles, MI	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sysco Montana	Billings, MT	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ace Carpentry Inc	Manassas, VA	6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Interconnection Systems Incorporated	Central City, NE	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jn Trucking Inc.	Roosevelt, UT	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Potts & Callahan, Inc.	Baltimore, MD	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fond du Lac	Fond Du Lac, WI	80 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. 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.