Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Illinois

National Metal Fabricators

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

National Metal Fabricators runs at 594% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

National Metal Fabricators: 19.6 TCR = 594% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

National Metal Fabricators safety composite

National Metal Fabricators scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

−19.7

2016→2017

National Metal Fabricators injury rate improved

National Metal Fabricators's TCR fell 19.7 from 29.5 in 2016 to 9.8 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 29.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=29.5 · 2017=9.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Elk Grove Village, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.6 · 594% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #54/54
  • PHOTO North Central Fabric…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Central Fabricators LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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National Metal Fabricators in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows National Metal Fabricators averages 19.6 TCR (594% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

National Metal Fabricators TCR series: 2016=29.5 · 2017=9.8 · BLS 3.3

Where National Metal Fabricators falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 54 Air cowls, sheet metal (except employers in Illinois.

National Metal Fabricators (19 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate National Metal Fabricators
National Metal Fabricators (19 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

National Metal Fabricators has fewer employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2017 9.8 9.8 2 0 0
2016 29.5 29.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · IL · Elk Grove Village

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR North Central Fabricators LLC 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spiral Metals Corp of BR 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Optima Stantron Corporation 19.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Data Metalcraft, Inc. 19.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gingerich Farms Partnerships 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tolono Research 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Hillcrest 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Morgan Acres, LLC. 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR creative werks, LLC 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL008 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR Regent Court Senior Living 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Casa de Oro Center 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill of Colorado - Platte 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00707 19.6 TCR

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: 2017, 2016. 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.