Bushings, plastics, manufacturing · Illinois

Ironwood Industries

Libertyville, IL · ~48 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ironwood Industries runs at 306% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bushings, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ironwood Industries: 10.1 TCR = 306% of Bushings, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ironwood Industries safety composite

Ironwood Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2020→2024

Ironwood Industries injury rate improved

Ironwood Industries's TCR fell 0.4 from 6.7 in 2020 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.7 · 2021=13.4 · 2022=11.1 · 2023=13.1 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Libertyville, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 306% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #170/175
  • PHOTO Primary Automation S…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Primary Automation Systems, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ironwood Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ironwood Industries averages 10.1 TCR (306% of the Bushings, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ironwood Industries TCR series: 2020=6.7 · 2021=13.4 · 2022=11.1 · 2023=13.1 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Ironwood Industries falls in its industry

2,838 Bushings, plastics, manufactur establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #170 safest of 175 Bushings, plastics, manufactur employers in Illinois.

Ironwood Industries (48 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 Ironwood Industries
Ironwood Industries (48 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ironwood Industries has fewer employees than the Bushings, plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.3 4.2 3 0 0
2023 13.1 0.0 4 2 0
2022 11.1 0.0 5 0 0
2021 13.4 3.8 7 0 0
2020 6.7 2.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · Libertyville

2,838 Bushings, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 71 employers in Libertyville, 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 Primary Automation Systems, Inc 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Viking Plastics Kentucky 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR FDS Manufacturing Co 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABM by Prodex, LLC 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Marengo - 04WW 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kirie Water Reclamation Plant 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Focus Development, Inc. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar Multi-Family - Central (Chicago) 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Condell Medical Center 1,903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brightstar, US 1,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aldridge Electric 1,193 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hollister Incorporated Libertyville 580 FTE
NAT-TCR Guthrie County Hospital 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 20511 - Norwin 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JE Gibson Inc 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mom's Meals Oklahoma Kitchen 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Excelco/Newbrook, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allegheny Performance Plastics, LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crane Rental Service, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4G Concrete, Inc 48 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.