Firearms, small, manufacturing · Illinois

L.W. Schneider, Inc.

Princeton, IL · ~352 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L.W. Schneider, Inc. runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Firearms, small, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

L.W. Schneider, Inc.: 4.7 TCR = 143% of Firearms, small, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L.W. Schneider, Inc. safety composite

L.W. Schneider, Inc. 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.23 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

L.W. Schneider, Inc.: 2.8 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

L.W. Schneider, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.0 from 2.8 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332994 · Princeton, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 143% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Sturm Ruger and comp…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 147 inj
  • SIZE ~352 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sturm Ruger and company, Inc Prescott, AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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L.W. Schneider, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L.W. Schneider, Inc. averages 4.7 TCR (143% of the Firearms, small, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

L.W. Schneider, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=3 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where L.W. Schneider, Inc. falls in its industry

126 Firearms, small, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #4 safest of 5 Firearms, small, manufacturing employers in Illinois.

L.W. Schneider, Inc. (352 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate L.W. Schneider, Inc.
L.W. Schneider, Inc. (352 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.5

L.W. Schneider, Inc. has more employees than the Firearms, small, manufacturing 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
2024 3.8 3.2 7 0 0
2023 3.0 1.5 4 0 0
2022 5.2 3.6 13 0 0
2021 8.8 6.2 37 4 0
2020 4.5 3.0 16 3 0
2019 4.6 2.2 14 3 0
2018 4.8 2.7 22 3 0
2017 5.1 3.5 21 4 0
2016 2.8 1.7 13 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332994 · IL · Princeton

126 Firearms, small, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 33 employers in Princeton, 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 Sturm Ruger and company, Inc Prescott, AZ 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR KEYSTONE SPORTING ARMS LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nammo Defense Systems, Salt Lake City UT 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimber Harrison Ave 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Branding Iron Holdings 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1325 Cicero 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grupo Antolin Nashville 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Office 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Hardware 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton) 591 FTE
CITY-NEAR Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms Princeton Facility 413 FTE
NAT-TCR Wright's Scrap Metals 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Esstech, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR LB Manufacturing 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elkay Interior Systems 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Republic Services of Arlington 352 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smitty's Supply Inc 352 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haleon Oak Hill 352 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fox Electric, Ltd. 352 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.