Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services · Illinois

Higgs Welding - New Shop

Dieterich, IL · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Higgs Welding - New Shop runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade B.

Higgs Welding - New Shop: 1.2 TCR = 55% of Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Higgs Welding - New Shop safety composite

Higgs Welding - New Shop scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Higgs Welding - New Shop: 0.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2021

Higgs Welding - New Shop's TCR rose 3.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Dieterich, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 55% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #31/153
  • PHOTO Mustang Machinery Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mustang Machinery Company, LLC dba Mustang Cat (0.0 TCR gap)

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Higgs Welding - New Shop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Higgs Welding - New Shop averages 1.2 TCR (55% of the Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Higgs Welding - New Shop TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.5 · BLS 2.1

Where Higgs Welding - New Shop falls in its industry

2,560 Commercial and industrial mach establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 153 Commercial and industrial mach employers in Illinois.

Higgs Welding - New Shop (23 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Higgs Welding - New Shop
Higgs Welding - New Shop (23 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Higgs Welding - New Shop has fewer employees than the Commercial and industrial machinery repa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2021 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · IL · Dieterich

2,560 Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 7 employers in Dieterich, 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 Mustang Machinery Company, LLC dba Mustang Cat 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terex Utilities (Field Service) 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CBHymac 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR EthosEnergy TC, Inc. 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR EJ Water - Office / Shop 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dieterich 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR EJ Water - Office 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wright's Furniture, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-TCR Nelson Tree Service, LLC 464 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 49361w - West Valley Plant 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 43171q - Somerset Bin 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 42671c - Manassas Bin 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE WRC Senior Services Business Office 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fargo Lumber Yard 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Manor 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakewood Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 23 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.