Skirting leather manufacturing · Illinois

Horween Leather Company

Chicago, IL · ~120 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Horween Leather Company runs at 379% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Skirting leather manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Horween Leather Company: 12.5 TCR = 379% of Skirting leather manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Horween Leather Company safety composite

Horween Leather Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Horween Leather Company: 4.8 → 18.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 21.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2024

Horween Leather Company's TCR rose 13.3 from 4.8 in 2016 to 18.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 21.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 316110 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 379% of ind

  • DART 12.6 DART
  • RANK P12
  • PHOTO Twin City Tanning Co…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Twin City Tanning Company (1.1 TCR gap)

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Horween Leather Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Horween Leather Company averages 12.5 TCR (379% of the Skirting leather manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Horween Leather Company TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=10.8 · 2023=21.2 · 2024=18 · BLS 3.3

Where Horween Leather Company falls in its industry

33 Skirting leather manufacturing establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Horween Leather Company (120 employees, TCR 12.5) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 7.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 050100150200250300 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Horween Leather Company
Horween Leather Company (120 employees, TCR 12.5) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 7.3

Horween Leather Company has more employees than the Skirting leather manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.3. 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 18.0 12.6 15 5 0
2023 21.2 15.7 21 2 0
2022 10.8 8.9 7 4 0
2021 7.8 6.8 8 0 0
2016 4.8 3.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

316110 · IL · Chicago

33 Skirting leather manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Twin City Tanning Company 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pasco Hides 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Wing Shoe Co. - SBF Lower 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norpol USA 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ragnar Benson 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE TKC Highland 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Constructors 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE 123 - Archer Western/Herzog 4 JV 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR American Custom Exteriors & Interiors 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TXA006 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR S03237 - WM of the Rockies - Montrose Hauling 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0844 - Tallahassee 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mountain Prairie 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Three Rivers 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington Shop 'n Save 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Strip, Inc. Headquarters 120 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, 2021, 2016. 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.