Machine shops · Illinois

O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon

Lacon, IL · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon runs at 222% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon: 7.3 TCR = 222% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon safety composite

O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.3

2022→2024

O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon injury rate improved

O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon's TCR fell 9.3 from 15.6 in 2022 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=15.6 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Lacon, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 222% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #91/103
  • PHOTO NTM Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NTM Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon averages 7.3 TCR (222% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon TCR series: 2022=15.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

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

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #91 safest of 103 Machine shops employers in Illinois.

O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon (51 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon
O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon (51 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

O'Brien Steel Service- Lacon has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 6.3 2.1 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 15.6 13.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IL · Lacon

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 7 employers in Lacon, 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 NTM Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abbottstown Industries, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Graphic Equipment Corp 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Steel & Manufacturing, Inc. 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Larch Farm 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDG 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prince Minerals LLC - QUI 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Quincy 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lacon Rehab 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lacon Rehab and Nursing 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hardin Industries LLC 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR O'Brien Steel Service - Meta Tec 45 FTE
NAT-TCR Cummins Charleston ReCon Plant 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Peace Harbor Hospital Main Campus 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DOK2 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express - Moundsville 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northlake Steel Corporation 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE GC Electric CO, INC. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prism Plastics Products Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robert E. Porter Construction Co., Inc. 51 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, 2022. 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.