Steel manufacturing · Illinois

Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp

Madison, IL · ~47 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp safety composite

Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Madison, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #17/28
  • PHOTO Optimus Steel LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Optimus Steel LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp averages 3.7 TCR (112% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=9 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 28 Steel manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp (47 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp
Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp (47 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Lapham-Hickey Steel Corp has fewer employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2023 9.0 6.7 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IL · Madison

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 19 employers in Madison, 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 Optimus Steel LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coilplus Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Searing Industries 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DETCO 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1987-Jerseyville, IL (Monsanto Co.) 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-Mfg 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Power, Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Decatur 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maverick Transportation, LLC - Madison, IL 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAGNESIUM ELEKTRON NORTH AMERICA INC 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR 223 - Madison West 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Interco Trading Company 82 FTE
NAT-TCR Fougera Pharmaceuticals Hicksville Site 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Artiflex Mfg Clyde 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Optimus Steel LLC 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Belmont 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0000000030 Pharmacy 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hartley Feeders 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mission Point of Roscommon 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Veolia WTS Inc. 47 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.