Iron forgings made from purchased iron, unfinished · Illinois

KDK Upset Forging Company

Name: KDK Upset Forging Company Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Blue Island, IL · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 8.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

KDK Upset Forging Company runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Iron forgings made from purchased iron, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

KDK Upset Forging Company: 8.3 TCR = 252% of Iron forgings made from purchased iron, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KDK Upset Forging Company safety composite

KDK Upset Forging Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

KDK Upset Forging Company: 0.0 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

KDK Upset Forging Company's TCR rose 16.6 from 0.0 in 2020 to 16.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Blue Island, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 252% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #14/19
PHOTO Hanmar, LLC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hanmar, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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8
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8

What this shows KDK Upset Forging Company averages 8.3 TCR (252% of the Iron forgings made from purchased iron, unfinished BLS benchmark).

KDK Upset Forging Company TCR series: 2020=0 · 2023=16.6 · BLS 3.3

Where KDK Upset Forging Company falls in its industry

241 Iron forgings made from purcha establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 19 Iron forgings made from purcha employers in Illinois.

KDK Upset Forging Company (30 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

KDK Upset Forging Company has fewer employees than the Iron forgings made from purchased iron, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2023	16.6	0.0	2	0	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · IL · Blue Island

241 Iron forgings made from purchased iron, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 27 employers in Blue Island, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Hanmar, LLC	PACOIMA, CA	8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pioneer Forge Div. of Powers and Sons, LLC	PIONEER, OH	8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sterling Multi Products	PROPHETSTOWN, IL	8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pittsburgh Plug & Products Corporation	EVANS CITY, PA	8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Odell Fire	ODELL	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops	LINCOLN	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Chicago Loop Tech	CHICAGO	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc.	CANTON	30 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MetroSouth Medical Center	Blue Island	853 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Elementary School	Blue Island	505 FTE
CITY-NEAR	130-Chicago South	Blue Island	250 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago Magnesium Casting Company	Blue Island	117 FTE
NAT-TCR	Trical - Hollister	Hollister, CA	8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Meadow Ridge Elementary School	Albany, OR	8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Durham Location	Durham, NC	8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	KPC Promise Skilled Nursing Facility of Overland Park	Overland Park, KS	8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Blake Drilling Company, Inc.	Blaine, MN	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	FL, RI Jacksonville Mayo	Jacksonville, FL	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Straight Arrow Products, Inc. - Highland	Bethlehem, PA	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Northern Indiana Manufacturing	Bourbon, IN	30 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: 2023, 2020. 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.