Sheets, steel, made in iron and steel mills · Illinois

John H. Best

Galva, IL · ~37 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John H. Best runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sheets, steel, made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade A.

John H. Best: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Sheets, steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John H. Best safety composite

John H. Best scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

John H. Best: 0.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 4.01× in 2024

John H. Best's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Galva, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #9/28
  • PHOTO Nucor Yamato Steel
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nucor Yamato Steel (0.0 TCR gap)

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John H. Best in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John H. Best averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Sheets, steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

John H. Best TCR series: 2018=0 · 2021=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where John H. Best falls in its industry

416 Sheets, steel, made in iron an establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 28 Sheets, steel, made in iron an employers in Illinois.

John H. Best (37 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate John H. Best
John H. Best (37 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

John H. Best has fewer employees than the Sheets, steel, made in iron and steel mi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IL · Galva

416 Sheets, steel, made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Galva, 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 Nucor Yamato Steel 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ONI Industries 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Castrip Arkansas 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Steel Gallatin 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curtis Orchard Ltd 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscola 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Seed Farms, Inc. - Ursa 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Fleet Facility 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Galva - IL 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dixline Corporation 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big River Resources Galva, LLC 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR CYE Galva 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Crown Lift Trucks Salt Lake 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonora Construction 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bryan Electric Co., Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 171-Marriott Cincinnati Airport 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Utica Cutlery Company 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Knolls CCRC Nursing Home 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Visumatic Industrial Products 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE C462 Bryson City 37 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, 2021, 2018. 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.