Bookbinding machines manufacturing · Illinois

Hertzberg New Method, Inc.

Jacksonville, IL · ~235 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hertzberg New Method, Inc. runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bookbinding machines manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hertzberg New Method, Inc.: 3.0 TCR = 91% of Bookbinding machines manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hertzberg New Method, Inc. safety composite

Hertzberg New Method, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hertzberg New Method, Inc.: 2.8 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.16× in 2024

Hertzberg New Method, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.0 from 2.8 in 2022 to 3.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333244 · Jacksonville, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #8/12
  • PHOTO Valassis Direct Mail…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~235 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valassis Direct Mail Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hertzberg New Method, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hertzberg New Method, Inc. averages 3.0 TCR (91% of the Bookbinding machines manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hertzberg New Method, Inc. TCR series: 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Hertzberg New Method, Inc. falls in its industry

82 Bookbinding machines manufactu establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 12 Bookbinding machines manufactu employers in Illinois.

Hertzberg New Method, Inc. (235 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Hertzberg New Method, Inc.
Hertzberg New Method, Inc. (235 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Hertzberg New Method, Inc. has more employees than the Bookbinding machines manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 3.8 0.5 7 1 0
2023 2.5 0.8 6 0 0
2022 2.8 0.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333244 · IL · Jacksonville

82 Bookbinding machines manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Jacksonville, 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 Valassis Direct Mail Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milton Production 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harper Corp of America NC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson & Vreeland Inc. Ohio 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE PGL Main Office 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Chicago - Department of Water Management 1040 W 95th St 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vision Integrated Graphics 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE 531-00513 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR Passavant Area Hospital 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jacksonville Memorial Hospital 666 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds Consumer Products- Jacksonville West Plant 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR RCP Jax West Plant 450 FTE
NAT-TCR Fremont Store 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR XIT Feeders 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Euclid Fish Company 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Applied Industrial Machining, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garrett-Keyser-Butler Community School District 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE GoodKind Hospitality, LLC 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Cypress 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sign-Zone, LLC (Headquarters) 235 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.