Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing · Illinois

Handy

Wheeling, IL · ~45 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore Editorial, Employer Workplace Safety Editorial Team

C
Average Safety Record: 0.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

The verdict

Handy runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

C
Average Safety Record: 0.0
avg TCR · per 100 workers: 3.3
industry benchmark (BLS): 0
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Handy's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 4 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Handy's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 339993.

Where Handy falls in its industry

27 Buckles and buckle parts (incl establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Handy has an average TCR of 0.0, which is 0% of the industry average (3.3) for Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing. This is better than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for Handy

Between 2017 and 2020, Handy's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 0.0 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 0% change across 3 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 0.0, a spread of 0.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 4 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.

Summed across those 4 reporting years, Handy recorded 0 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 4-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Handy's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 339993 - Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 83,293 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark	TCR	Source
Handy (this establishment)	0.00	OSHA ITA Form 300A, 4-year avg
Fasteners (e.g., glove, hook-and-eye, slide, snap) manufacturing industry avg	3.30	BLS IIF, NAICS 339993
Illinois state avg (all industries)	4.73	OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Handy to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

2020: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2019: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2018: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2017: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses	Fatalities
2020	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Handy's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

At 0% of the Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing benchmark, Handy reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
Judge this record against the wider Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Handy's safety grade?

Handy has a safety grade of C (Average Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 0.0 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing.

How many injuries has Handy reported?

Handy has reported 0 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 4 years of OSHA data (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.