Screen printing apparel and textile products (e.g. caps, napkins, placemats, T-shirts, towels) (except grey goods) · Illinois

Howard Custom Transfers, Inc.

Elgin, IL · ~66 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard Custom Transfers, Inc. runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Screen printing apparel and textile products (e.g. caps, napkins, placemats, T-shirts, towels) (except grey goods) workplace, earning a grade A.

Howard Custom Transfers, Inc.: 0.7 TCR = 22% of Screen printing apparel and textile products (e.g. caps, napkins, placemats, T-shirts, towels) (except grey goods) BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard Custom Transfers, Inc. safety composite

Howard Custom Transfers, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Howard Custom Transfers, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Howard Custom Transfers, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323113 · Elgin, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/14
  • PHOTO KLK Holdings, Inc, d…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KLK Holdings, Inc, dba Level 10 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howard Custom Transfers, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard Custom Transfers, Inc. averages 0.7 TCR (22% of the Screen printing apparel and textile products (e.g. caps, napkins, placemats, T-shirts, towels) (except grey goods) BLS benchmark).

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

Howard Custom Transfers, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Howard Custom Transfers, Inc. falls in its industry

200 Screen printing apparel and te establishments

Safer than 92% 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 #3 safest of 14 Screen printing apparel and te employers in Illinois.

Howard Custom Transfers, Inc. (66 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Howard Custom Transfers, Inc.
Howard Custom Transfers, Inc. (66 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Howard Custom Transfers, Inc. has fewer employees than the Screen printing apparel and textile prod 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2020 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

323113 · IL · Elgin

200 Screen printing apparel and textile products (e.g. caps, napkins, placemats, T-shirts, towels) (except grey goods) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, 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 KLK Holdings, Inc, dba Level 10 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mar-Tek Industries, Inc 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SBPI, Inc 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DesignTex Maine 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE NG Schaumburg Reporting Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Boldt Company - Chicago, IL 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Underground Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Sherman Hospital 1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elgin 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin 774 FTE
NAT-TCR CAC Industries, Inc 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hydro Phoenix Extrusion 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR DeSoto Overhaul Center 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Seattle Admin 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Performance Chemical Company 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Perspective - Resource Center 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE MGQ, Inc. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grow More, Inc. 66 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, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.