Fish wire (i.e., electrical wiring tool) manufacturing · Illinois

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building

Sycamore, IL · ~178 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fish wire (i.e., electrical wiring tool) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building: 3.3 TCR = 101% of Fish wire (i.e., electrical wiring tool) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building safety composite

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building: 2.3 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.3 in 2018 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332216 · Sycamore, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 101% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #8/17
  • PHOTO The M. K. Morse Comp…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The M. K. Morse Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building averages 3.3 TCR (101% of the Fish wire (i.e., electrical wiring tool) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building TCR series: 2018=2.3 · 2020=1.7 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=6 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building falls in its industry

174 Fish wire (i.e., electrical wi establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

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 17 Fish wire (i.e., electrical wi employers in Illinois.

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building (178 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building
IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building (178 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - South Prairie Manufacturing Building has more employees than the Fish wire (i.e., electrical wiring tool) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 2.9 2.9 5 0 0
2023 6.0 6.0 11 0 0
2022 3.9 3.4 8 0 0
2020 1.7 1.1 3 0 0
2018 2.3 2.3 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332216 · IL · Sycamore

174 Fish wire (i.e., electrical wiring tool) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 44 employers in Sycamore, 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 The M. K. Morse Company 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Tool 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PanaVise Products, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blount - Portland 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wyffels Hybrids 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease Chicago 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saputo Lincolnshire 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAXXUS 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb County Government 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient-AS-Sycamore Facility-00209 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sycamore 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Suter Company, Inc. 335 FTE
NAT-TCR C401 Fayetteville 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Inline Plastics Inc. (Connecticut) 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kellogg Supply Company, Inc. - Duck Location 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rouses Market #81 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE NYS Veteran's Home at Batavia 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Curry Supply - Hollidaysburg 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capri Hospitality Management, LLC 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales Group 178 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, 2020, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.