Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing · Illinois

J.T.Fennell Co., Inc.

Chillicothe, IL · ~97 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J.T.Fennell Co., Inc. runs at 346% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

J.T.Fennell Co., Inc.: 11.4 TCR = 346% of Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J.T.Fennell Co., Inc. safety composite

J.T.Fennell Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

J.T.Fennell Co., Inc.: 3.9 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 22.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2024

J.T.Fennell Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 2.3 from 3.9 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 22.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Chillicothe, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 346% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #47/51
  • PHOTO FABRICATION SHOP
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 74 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FABRICATION SHOP (0.0 TCR gap)

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J.T.Fennell Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J.T.Fennell Co., Inc. averages 11.4 TCR (346% of the Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

J.T.Fennell Co., Inc. TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=12.9 · 2021=22.7 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where J.T.Fennell Co., Inc. falls in its industry

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 51 Structural steel, fabricated, employers in Illinois.

J.T.Fennell Co., Inc. (97 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 J.T.Fennell Co., Inc.
J.T.Fennell Co., Inc. (97 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

J.T.Fennell Co., Inc. has more employees than the Structural steel, fabricated, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 6.2 2.1 3 0 0
2023 10.6 5.8 11 0 0
2022 9.8 1.8 10 1 0
2021 22.7 13.1 18 1 0
2019 12.9 7.4 14 0 0
2018 13.9 3.7 15 0 0
2017 3.9 3.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · IL · Chillicothe

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 19 employers in Chillicothe, 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 FABRICATION SHOP 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Finnoe Design LLC 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Standard Refrigeration 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TINCHER'S WELDING, LLC 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ieso LLC 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fox Metro Water Reclamation District 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE pan oceanic engineering 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.I.V 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Valley Central SD #321 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR LINC 6152 - Mossville 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR LINC 6152 - (Mossville - F) 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dematic - Mossville 178 FTE
NAT-TCR Lassens Bakersfield 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Optimist Campus 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Department 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Spring Hill SS 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE HCLI headquarters 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benchmark Arbors of Bedford LLC 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Louis Sov 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE J/K Excavation & Grading Co., Inc. 97 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.