Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade · Illinois

Ionbond - Chicago

West Chicago, IL · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ionbond - Chicago runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Ionbond - Chicago: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ionbond - Chicago safety composite

Ionbond - Chicago scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ionbond - Chicago: 0.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Ionbond - Chicago's TCR rose 8.4 from 0.0 in 2023 to 8.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · West Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/41
  • PHOTO AZZ Galvanizing - Ho…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AZZ Galvanizing - Houston West (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ionbond - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ionbond - Chicago averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Ionbond - Chicago TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ionbond - Chicago falls in its industry

646 Aluminum coating of metal prod establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 41 Aluminum coating of metal prod employers in Illinois.

Ionbond - Chicago (24 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ionbond - Chicago
Ionbond - Chicago (24 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Ionbond - Chicago has fewer employees than the Aluminum coating of metal products for t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2024 8.4 0.0 1 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · IL · West Chicago

646 Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West 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 AZZ Galvanizing - Houston West 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gemtech Coatings 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelley St 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR V&S Delaware Galvanizing LLC 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE C70 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hecate Grid LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG DeKalb Reporting Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Mount Carmel St. Ann's Hospital 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR UIV 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Uniontown Facility 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Graeter's Ice Cream Company RGW 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE BUXSC Buxmont Service Center 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Open Grounds Farm, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE USL 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE XRO 24 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. 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.