Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying · Illinois

Meade, Inc

Willowbrook, IL · ~932 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meade, Inc runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying workplace, earning a grade A.

Meade, Inc: 0.8 TCR = 29% of Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meade, Inc safety composite

Meade, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Meade, Inc held a steady TCR band

Meade, Inc's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.7 in 2023 to 0.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.7 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Willowbrook, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #15/50
  • PHOTO Henkels & McCoy, Inc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~932 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Henkels & McCoy, Inc - Aurora, IL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meade, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meade, Inc averages 0.8 TCR (29% of the Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS benchmark).

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

Meade, Inc TCR series: 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Meade, Inc falls in its industry

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 50 Underground cable (e.g., cable employers in Illinois.

Meade, Inc (932 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Meade, Inc
Meade, Inc (932 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Meade, Inc has more employees than the Underground cable (e.g., cable televisio median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 0.9 0.6 9 0 0
2023 0.7 0.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · IL · Willowbrook

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 32 employers in Willowbrook, 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 Henkels & McCoy, Inc - Aurora, IL 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydaker-Wheatlake - Consumers HVD 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIS 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AAP Construction 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 6059 933 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advocate Trinity Hospital 931 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peoria Park District - All Facilities 931 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morris Hospital 934 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meade Industries, Inc 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meade Electric Company, Inc. 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1882 - Willowbrook 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10573 Willowbrook 182 FTE
NAT-TCR Campbell Soup Supply Company, INC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Huhtamaki 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0679 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jamestown Electro Plating Works Inc 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mnmpl - Maple Grove 932 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Book Company - Harrisonburg North 932 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carrier Clinic 932 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Environmental Services, LLC 932 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.