Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel · Illinois

Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant

Chicago Heights, IL · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade F.

Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant: 7.5 TCR = 228% of Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant safety composite

Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.0

2016→2018

Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant injury rate improved

Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant's TCR fell 3.0 from 7.8 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2017=10.1 · 2018=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331210 · Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 228% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #16/21
  • PHOTO Delta Steel & Tube, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Delta Steel & Tube, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant averages 7.5 TCR (228% of the Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=10.1 · 2018=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant falls in its industry

329 Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, loc establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 21 Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, loc employers in Illinois.

Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant (58 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant
Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant (58 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant has fewer employees than the Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, s median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2018 4.8 4.8 3 0 0
2017 10.1 6.7 5 1 0
2016 7.8 3.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331210 · IL · Chicago Heights

329 Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, 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 Delta Steel & Tube, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASTI - Troutman Location 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bull Moose Industries 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maruichi-Leavitt Pipe and Tube 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Relay Ops 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - La Salle 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menold Construction and Restoration 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALPA Construction, Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Walnut Hollow Farm Inc 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Burke Health and Rehabilitation Center 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stampcoat II 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 082 ABC Supply Co., Inc 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE FirstLight Power Resources - Northfield Mountain/NERC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeland Logistics 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tax - Greensboro 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Village at Heritage Point 58 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: 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.