Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground · Illinois

Meade Industries, Inc

Name: Meade Industries, Inc Workplace Safety Data
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Willowbrook, IL · ~315 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.5
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Meade Industries, Inc runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade A.

Meade Industries, Inc: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meade Industries, Inc safety composite

Meade Industries, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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 Industries, Inc held a steady TCR band

Meade Industries, Inc's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.6 in 2023 to 0.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.6 · 2024=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

DART 0.3 DART
RANK #4/50
PHOTO Bright Star Solutions
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~315 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bright Star Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Meade Industries, Inc averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

Meade Industries, Inc TCR series: 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Meade Industries, Inc falls in its industry

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

Grade A

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 50 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Illinois.

Meade Industries, Inc (315 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Meade Industries, Inc has more employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el 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	0.3	0.3	1	0	0
2023	0.6	0.3	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · IL · Willowbrook

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Bright Star Solutions	SOUR LAKE, TX	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Future Infrastructure - Dallas Ft Worth	MESQUITE, TX	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Henkels & McCoy West, LLC - Pomona, CA	POMONA, CA	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Richardson Wayland Electrical Company	ROANOKE, VA	0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Manchester Tank & Equipment- Quincy	QUINCY	315 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hollister Whitney Elevator	QUINCY	315 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 5060	ALGONQUIN	315 FTE
STATE-SIZE	R+L Carriers - CHI	CHICAGO	315 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Meade, Inc	Willowbrook	932 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Meade Electric Company, Inc.	Willowbrook	243 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1882 - Willowbrook	Willowbrook	237 FTE
CITY-NEAR	10573 Willowbrook	Willowbrook	182 FTE
NAT-TCR	Kynat - Ups National Turnpike	Louisville, KY	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kytrn - Training Center	Louisville, KY	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	New York Shop	New York, NY	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Stevensville	Stevensville, MI	0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Dealership - City of Industry	City of Industry, CA	315 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pontiac CCA	Pontiac, MI	315 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Shoprite of Wharton	Wharton, NJ	315 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Stratolaunch	Mojave, CA	315 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.