Kit car bodies manufacturing · Illinois

Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago

Mchenry, IL · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Kit car bodies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago: 6.2 TCR = 189% of Kit car bodies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago safety composite

Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.4

2022→2024

Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago injury rate improved

Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago's TCR fell 3.4 from 8.9 in 2022 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.9 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Mchenry, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 189% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Thomas Built Buses
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thomas Built Buses (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago averages 6.2 TCR (189% of the Kit car bodies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago TCR series: 2022=8.9 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago falls in its industry

470 Kit car bodies manufacturing establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Kit car bodies manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago (59 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago
Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago (59 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Knapheide Equipment Co - Chicago has fewer employees than the Kit car bodies manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 5.5 1.4 4 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 3 0 0
2022 8.9 6.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · IL · Mchenry

470 Kit car bodies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 67 employers in Mchenry, 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 Thomas Built Buses 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hol-Mac Corporation P3 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardone Plant 49 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Auto Truck Charleston 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cornbelt Fire Protection District 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Exelon Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Electric Field Meter Services 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0G5 - Gas Tech - Engineering 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Illinois Medical Center 2,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medcor, Inc 1,271 FTE
CITY-NEAR McHenry 609 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDC 530 FTE
NAT-TCR WaterColor Resort 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR EON, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewis Center Oh - 3312 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield West Mo - 3355 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alfredito Investments Inc 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterford Tank & Fabrication LTD 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester Community Behavioral Health Hospital 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harding's Markets 902 59 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. 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.