Chimney, concrete, construction · Illinois

Monroe Bartels Inc

Effingham, IL · ~43 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Monroe Bartels Inc runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chimney, concrete, construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Monroe Bartels Inc: 5.0 TCR = 178% of Chimney, concrete, construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Monroe Bartels Inc safety composite

Monroe Bartels Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Monroe Bartels Inc: 2.4 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Monroe Bartels Inc's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.4 in 2022 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238110 · Effingham, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #37/48
  • PHOTO Olshan Arklatex LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Olshan Arklatex LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Monroe Bartels Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Monroe Bartels Inc averages 5.0 TCR (178% of the Chimney, concrete, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Monroe Bartels Inc TCR series: 2022=2.4 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Monroe Bartels Inc falls in its industry

1,314 Chimney, concrete, constructio establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 48 Chimney, concrete, constructio employers in Illinois.

Monroe Bartels Inc (43 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Monroe Bartels Inc
Monroe Bartels Inc (43 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Monroe Bartels Inc has fewer employees than the Chimney, concrete, construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 3.9 0.0 2 0 0
2023 8.7 6.5 4 0 0
2022 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238110 · IL · Effingham

1,314 Chimney, concrete, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 104 employers in Effingham, 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 Olshan Arklatex LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poured Brick Walls, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zera Construction Company, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prieto Construction Company, Inc. 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stratum Reservoir, LLC - Champaign 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - East St. Louis 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manlove Storage Field 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Anthony's Hospital, Effingham 762 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital 582 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAE-EFFINGHAM-3 HSHS ST ANTHONY S MEMORIAL HOSP 509 FTE
CITY-NEAR Patterson Technolgy Center 456 FTE
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn & Suites 30806 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bicycle Street Inn & Waterfront Collection 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Operations Building 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR R&E Enterprises of Mankato 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Forney Ohio Warehouse 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royalty Mooney & Moses 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE 020 Yauco 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE 163510-Monroe | CT | 163510 43 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.