Cable, copper (e.g., armored, bare, insulated), made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants · Illinois

Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland

Elkhart, IL · ~57 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland runs at 335% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cable, copper (e.g., armored, bare, insulated), made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland: 11.0 TCR = 335% of Cable, copper (e.g., armored, bare, insulated), made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland safety composite

Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland: 9.0 → 13.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland's TCR rose 4.1 from 9.0 in 2023 to 13.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · Elkhart, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 335% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Eagle Metals, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eagle Metals, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland averages 11.0 TCR (335% of the Cable, copper (e.g., armored, bare, insulated), made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland TCR series: 2023=9 · 2024=13.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland falls in its industry

198 Cable, copper (e.g., armored, establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #7 safest of 7 Cable, copper (e.g., armored, employers in Illinois.

Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland (57 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland
Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland (57 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Lake Copper Conductors - Eastland has fewer employees than the Cable, copper (e.g., armored, bare, insu 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 13.1 11.5 7 1 0
2023 9.0 9.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · IL · Elkhart

198 Cable, copper (e.g., armored, bare, insulated), made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 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 Eagle Metals, Inc. 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tribal Manufacturing 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Alloys 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Wayne Magnet Wire Plant 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Concrete, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centennial Contractors of the Quad Cities, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Carpentry, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-TCR College Oak Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR University Retirement Community 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Milwaukee Composites, Inc. 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CSA Equipment Company 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE WLS Stamping 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA East Elmhurst 23 85 87th St 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA South San Francisco 513 Eccles Ave 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Priority Lexus Newport News 57 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.