Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade · Illinois

Nobert Plating Co

Chicago, IL · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nobert Plating Co runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade workplace, earning a grade B.

Nobert Plating Co: 2.2 TCR = 68% of Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nobert Plating Co safety composite

Nobert Plating Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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)
C 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Nobert Plating Co: 1.9 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2024

Nobert Plating Co's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.9 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 68% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #5/37
  • PHOTO Surface Finish Techn…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Surface Finish Technologies, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nobert Plating Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nobert Plating Co averages 2.2 TCR (68% of the Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Nobert Plating Co TCR series: 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Nobert Plating Co falls in its industry

585 Electroplating metals and form establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 37 Electroplating metals and form employers in Illinois.

Nobert Plating Co (54 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 Nobert Plating Co
Nobert Plating Co (54 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Nobert Plating Co has fewer employees than the Electroplating metals and formed product median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · IL · Chicago

585 Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade 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 Surface Finish Technologies, Inc 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frontier Group Chino Valley 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Result Enterprises Inc, DBA High Tech Finishing 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toledo 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois Crop Improvement Association, Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Electric Cooperative 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenlink Energy Solutions, Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE POINTCORE Construction, LLC 54 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 Berry Global 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonesta Select San Ramon 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Heart of Texas Electric Cooperative 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Buckeye Boxes 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Manhattan Empire State Building 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Charleston 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clovis Glass Co., Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wfs Tampa 54 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.