Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing · Illinois

O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk

Minonk, IL · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk: 7.2 TCR = 218% of Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk safety composite

O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−16.7

2022→2024

O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk injury rate improved

O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk's TCR fell 16.7 from 16.7 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=16.7 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Minonk, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 218% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/21
  • PHOTO Kohler Company-Saukv…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kohler Company-Saukville (0.0 TCR gap)

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O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk averages 7.2 TCR (218% of the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk TCR series: 2022=16.7 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

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

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #17 safest of 21 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut employers in Illinois.

O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk (56 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk
O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk (56 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

O'Brien Steel Service-Minonk has more employees than the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punc 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.9 3.3 3 0 0
2022 16.7 12.1 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · IL · Minonk

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 8 employers in Minonk, 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 Kohler Company-Saukville 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOCORP, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monarch LLC. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR T&D Fabrication 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bulk Power Operations 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norris Electric Cooperative 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 73G - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schaumburg Reporting Center 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR EDECO LLC, dba SMF 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR SMF Minonk 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Green Tree Pharmacy 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Green Tree Pharmacy #518/118 88 FTE
NAT-TCR Vineburg Machining 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Frasier Campbell 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Akin House, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Wendy's-156 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Textron Specialized Vehicles - Arctic Cat Sales Bucyrus 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stewart's Grading & Hauling, Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Faulkton Senior Living 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weatherly Casting & Machine Co., LLC 56 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.