Employer · Illinois

IL-Rockford-Lowe's

Rockford, IL · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IL-Rockford-Lowe's runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

IL-Rockford-Lowe's: 10.4 TCR = 232% of industry BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IL-Rockford-Lowe's safety composite

IL-Rockford-Lowe's scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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 10.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

IL-Rockford-Lowe's: 10.2 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2018

IL-Rockford-Lowe's's TCR rose 0.5 from 10.2 in 2017 to 10.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Rockford, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 232% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #137/143
  • PHOTO Keith Titus Corp- Os…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Keith Titus Corp- Oswego Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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IL-Rockford-Lowe's in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IL-Rockford-Lowe's averages 10.4 TCR (232% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

IL-Rockford-Lowe's TCR series: 2017=10.2 · 2018=10.7 · BLS 4.5

Where IL-Rockford-Lowe's falls in its industry

3,252 industry establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #137 safest of 143 industry employers in Illinois.

IL-Rockford-Lowe's (33 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate IL-Rockford-Lowe's
IL-Rockford-Lowe's (33 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

IL-Rockford-Lowe's has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 10.7 5.4 4 0 0
2017 10.2 7.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IL · Rockford

3,252 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 405 employers in Rockford, 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 Keith Titus Corp- Oswego Location 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAUL TRANSPORTATION, INC HOUSTON TEXAS 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RLTL CINNAMINSON 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BNC HYB 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Dwight 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Konos 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Farm Shop 208 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Will County Generating Station 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILRKF - ROCKFORD AIR HUB 2,634 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish American Hospital - 4800 2,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCI Pharma Services Rockford 2,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR SwedishAmerican Hospital 1,855 FTE
NAT-TCR BX352 - Cincinnati OH 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Watertown (Wiwat) 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Winona (Mnwin) 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Forte Products - Farmington 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ambulance 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE HBSHSETX08 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercedes Facility 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Three Rivers Surgical Care 33 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: 2018, 2017. 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.