Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Illinois

IMS Global Gear & Machining

Downers Grove, IL · ~118 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IMS Global Gear & Machining runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

IMS Global Gear & Machining: 8.6 TCR = 159% of Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IMS Global Gear & Machining safety composite

IMS Global Gear & Machining scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.2

2021→2022

IMS Global Gear & Machining injury rate improved

IMS Global Gear & Machining's TCR fell 6.2 from 11.7 in 2021 to 5.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=11.7 · 2022=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Downers Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 159% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #33/35
  • PHOTO TOPLINE/HY-LIFT JOHN…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TOPLINE/HY-LIFT JOHNSON (0.1 TCR gap)

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IMS Global Gear & Machining in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IMS Global Gear & Machining averages 8.6 TCR (159% of the Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

IMS Global Gear & Machining TCR series: 2021=11.7 · 2022=5.5 · BLS 5.4

Where IMS Global Gear & Machining falls in its industry

320 Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, sp establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 35 Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, sp employers in Illinois.

IMS Global Gear & Machining (118 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate IMS Global Gear & Machining
IMS Global Gear & Machining (118 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

IMS Global Gear & Machining has fewer employees than the Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), aut median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2022 5.5 2.2 5 0 0
2021 11.7 11.7 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · IL · Downers Grove

320 Gears (e.g., crown, pinion, spider), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 139 employers in Downers Grove, 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 TOPLINE/HY-LIFT JOHNSON 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inland Truck Parts Company 2 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inland Truck Parts Company 25 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bucyrus Precision Tech, Inc. 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illiopolis, IL 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2508-Waterman, IL (Monsanto Co.) 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rock River Water Reclamation District 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Pipeline- IL 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Medical Group 5,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Support Centers 2,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital 1,958 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADVOCATE CHILDRENS HOSPITALS 1,734 FTE
NAT-TCR Ponzani Nurseries, LLC 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-02935 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-01802 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #603 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #664 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #041 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #687 118 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.