Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade · Illinois

O'Brien Steel Service- CHT

Peoria, IL · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O'Brien Steel Service- CHT runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

O'Brien Steel Service- CHT: 1.6 TCR = 47% of Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O'Brien Steel Service- CHT safety composite

O'Brien Steel Service- CHT scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

O'Brien Steel Service- CHT: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.99× in 2024

O'Brien Steel Service- CHT's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332811 · Peoria, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 47% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #2/24
  • PHOTO USA Heat Treating, I…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: USA Heat Treating, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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O'Brien Steel Service- CHT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O'Brien Steel Service- CHT averages 1.6 TCR (47% of the Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

O'Brien Steel Service- CHT TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where O'Brien Steel Service- CHT falls in its industry

248 Heat treating metals and metal establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 24 Heat treating metals and metal employers in Illinois.

O'Brien Steel Service- CHT (19 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate O'Brien Steel Service- CHT
O'Brien Steel Service- CHT (19 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2

O'Brien Steel Service- CHT has fewer employees than the Heat treating metals and metal products median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332811 · IL · Peoria

248 Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 312 employers in Peoria, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR USA Heat Treating, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parker Trutec MMi 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heat Treating Services Plant 3 South 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bodycote Thermal Processing, Inc. - Holland 1.6 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 OSF Saint Francis Medical Center 5,293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Francis Medical Center 5,007 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Staff 3,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Medical Center 2,815 FTE
NAT-TCR Industrial Steel & Boiler Services, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Branch 4665 - Van Nuys 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrell's LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gateway Community Partners, Inc. 1.6 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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