Employer · Illinois

MPS Chicago Tube

Chicago, IL · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MPS Chicago Tube runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

MPS Chicago Tube: 3.7 TCR = 113% of industry BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MPS Chicago Tube safety composite

MPS Chicago Tube scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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)
D 3.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

MPS Chicago Tube: 0.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

MPS Chicago Tube's TCR rose 3.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO WestRock F&B
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WestRock F&B (0.0 TCR gap)

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MPS Chicago Tube in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MPS Chicago Tube averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

MPS Chicago Tube TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7.6 · 2018=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where MPS Chicago Tube falls in its industry

140 industry establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 industry employers in Illinois.

MPS Chicago Tube (23 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate MPS Chicago Tube
MPS Chicago Tube (23 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

MPS Chicago Tube has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2017 7.6 3.8 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · IL · Chicago

140 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 WestRock F&B 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huhtamaki- Fulton 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aspen Products - Kansas City 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meridian Tube Plant 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Custom-Crete, Dallas 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Samuel Toledo 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI Vienna 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lightlife Foods, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE LA.BATON.43 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olympic Metals 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redi-Mix, LLC Kennedale 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADS LLC - Earth City 23 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.