Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire · Illinois

Lake Cable LLC - Foster

Bensenville, IL · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Cable LLC - Foster runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade D.

Lake Cable LLC - Foster: 5.3 TCR = 161% of Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Cable LLC - Foster safety composite

Lake Cable LLC - Foster scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2023→2024

Lake Cable LLC - Foster injury rate improved

Lake Cable LLC - Foster's TCR fell 4.5 from 7.5 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.5 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Bensenville, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #14/19
  • PHOTO Sacramento/Corporate…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sacramento/Corporate Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake Cable LLC - Foster in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Cable LLC - Foster averages 5.3 TCR (161% of the Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Lake Cable LLC - Foster TCR series: 2023=7.5 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Lake Cable LLC - Foster falls in its industry

270 Cable, noninsulated wire, made establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

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 Cable, noninsulated wire, made employers in Illinois.

Lake Cable LLC - Foster (110 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake Cable LLC - Foster
Lake Cable LLC - Foster (110 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Lake Cable LLC - Foster has more employees than the Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 3.1 2.0 3 0 0
2023 7.5 6.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · IL · Bensenville

270 Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Bensenville, 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 Sacramento/Corporate Branch 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Wire Products, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wire Products Supply Company 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaspar Manufacturing 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lankford Construction Company 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROSSI CONTRACTORS, INC. 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE 141 - Great Hills Constructors 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plibrico Refractories LLC 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3Y US Foods Bensenville 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Foods Chicago 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR ORD - Main facility 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Foods Bensenville 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Nimsgern Steel Corp. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AGP Aberdeen Soy 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Comefri USA Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Calumet 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE FC: Denver 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albuquerque Embassy Suites 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashland Springs Hotel 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Charlotte 110 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. 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.