Insulation contractors · Illinois

Northwest Insulation #280

Elgin, IL · ~41 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwest Insulation #280 runs at 281% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Insulation contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Northwest Insulation #280: 7.9 TCR = 281% of Insulation contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest Insulation #280 safety composite

Northwest Insulation #280 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.08 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%).

Rising injury rate

Northwest Insulation #280: 5.0 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2021

Northwest Insulation #280's TCR rose 6.1 from 5.0 in 2018 to 11.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Elgin, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 281% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #47/50
  • PHOTO Rocky Mountain Inter…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rocky Mountain Interior Construction, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwest Insulation #280 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest Insulation #280 averages 7.9 TCR (281% of the Insulation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Northwest Insulation #280 TCR series: 2018=5 · 2019=10.2 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=11.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Northwest Insulation #280 falls in its industry

1,613 Insulation contractors establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 50 Insulation contractors employers in Illinois.

Northwest Insulation #280 (41 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 Northwest Insulation #280
Northwest Insulation #280 (41 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Northwest Insulation #280 has fewer employees than the Insulation contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2021 11.1 11.1 4 0 0
2020 5.2 2.6 2 0 0
2019 10.2 5.1 4 0 0
2018 5.0 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · IL · Elgin

1,613 Insulation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, 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 Rocky Mountain Interior Construction, Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southland Insulators of Manassas 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marshall Insulation #861 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redhawk Drywall Service, Inc. 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. - Champaign Research - CMI1 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1987-Jerseyville, IL 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt. Carmel Public Utility Co. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Sherman Hospital 1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elgin 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin 774 FTE
NAT-TCR Herb Pharm Williams 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cody Builders Supply, Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Strack and Van Til Hammond 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FedEx Office Los Angeles CA Manufacturing 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Red Rock - Nevada #867 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3-R Products & Services #665 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel Industries - Plant 4 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atwater Construction Ii LLC 41 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.