Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing · Illinois

Handy

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

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

Handy: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Handy safety composite

Handy scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Handy held a steady TCR band

Handy's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.0 TCR.

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339993 · Wheeling, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P100
  • PHOTO YKK (U.S.A.) Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: YKK (U.S.A.) Inc. (0.7 TCR gap)

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Handy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Handy averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Handy TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Handy falls in its industry

25 Buckles and buckle parts (incl establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Handy (45 employees, TCR 0.0) among 18 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 19 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Handy
Handy (45 employees, TCR 0.0) among 18 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Handy has fewer employees than the Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339993 · IL · Wheeling

25 Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 136 employers in Wheeling, 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 YKK (U.S.A.) Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITW Paslode Pocahontas, AR 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OGS Technologies, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR YKK USA Inc 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1982.1-Stonington, IL-Mfg (Monsanto Co.) 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmer City 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE 91P - Distribution Operating - Decatur 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Sparta 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL-01 4,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeling School District 21 967 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office - 01 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Response Team 1 728 FTE
NAT-TCR Meijer 208 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta - Phipps 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Binghamton 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Detroit 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE JBK Manufacturing, LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premise One 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town & Country Supermarket #2448 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arrowhead Country Club 45 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.