Filters, industrial and general line (except internal combustion engine, warm air furnace), manufacturing · Illinois

Komline-Barnes

Rockford, IL · ~97 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Komline-Barnes runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Filters, industrial and general line (except internal combustion engine, warm air furnace), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Komline-Barnes: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Filters, industrial and general line (except internal combustion engine, warm air furnace), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Komline-Barnes safety composite

Komline-Barnes scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Komline-Barnes: 2.8 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2023

Komline-Barnes's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.8 in 2022 to 4.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333999 · Rockford, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Vektek Kansas
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vektek Kansas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Komline-Barnes in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Komline-Barnes averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Filters, industrial and general line (except internal combustion engine, warm air furnace), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Komline-Barnes TCR series: 2022=2.8 · 2023=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Komline-Barnes falls in its industry

242 Filters, industrial and genera establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Filters, industrial and genera employers in Illinois.

Komline-Barnes (97 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Komline-Barnes
Komline-Barnes (97 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Komline-Barnes has more employees than the Filters, industrial and general line (ex median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 4.0 3.0 4 0 0
2022 2.8 1.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333999 · IL · Rockford

242 Filters, industrial and general line (except internal combustion engine, warm air furnace), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 405 employers in Rockford, 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 Vektek Kansas 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reichard Industries 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LPOA Factory & Field 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bellowstech 3.3 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 ILRKF - ROCKFORD AIR HUB 2,634 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish American Hospital - 4800 2,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCI Pharma Services Rockford 2,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR SwedishAmerican Hospital 1,855 FTE
NAT-TCR Niles Comm Schls* 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR USM Store #533 (United) 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #0688 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #0695 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Semo State Univ 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Batesville Hatchery 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Newberry, SC-USA 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rouses Market #36 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: 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.