Die-casting dies manufacturing · Illinois

Helm Tool Company

Schaumburg, IL · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Helm Tool Company runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Die-casting dies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Helm Tool Company: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Die-casting dies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Helm Tool Company safety composite

Helm Tool Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Helm Tool Company held a steady TCR band

Helm Tool Company's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333511 · Schaumburg, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/17
  • PHOTO Synventive Molding S…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Synventive Molding Solutions NA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Helm Tool Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Helm Tool Company averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Die-casting dies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Helm Tool Company TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Helm Tool Company falls in its industry

216 Die-casting dies manufacturing establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

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 17 Die-casting dies manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Helm Tool Company (40 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Helm Tool Company
Helm Tool Company (40 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Helm Tool Company has fewer employees than the Die-casting dies manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.7 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333511 · IL · Schaumburg

216 Die-casting dies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 246 employers in Schaumburg, 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 Synventive Molding Solutions NA 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maumee Pattern Company 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR King Machine of Charlotte 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Executool Precision Tooling, Inc. 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Integrity Management 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Bloomington Reporting Center 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Downers Grove Sanitary District 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Window Works Addison 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6354-OFFS 3,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaumburg Community Consolidated School District No. 54 2,876 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nation Pizza & Foods (Schaumburg) 1,320 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL02 1,301 FTE
NAT-TCR Bush Hog Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Trucking, Inc MO 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ausco Products Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Caf USA 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sigma Wire International 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solar Energy Solutions 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suzanne Elise assisted living 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rockland Marine Corp 40 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.