Belting, industrial, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Optibelt Corporation

Bartlett, IL · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Optibelt Corporation runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Belting, industrial, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Optibelt Corporation: 2.8 TCR = 125% of Belting, industrial, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Optibelt Corporation safety composite

Optibelt Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Optibelt Corporation: 1.9 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2023

Optibelt Corporation's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.9 in 2021 to 3.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Bartlett, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 125% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #17/28
  • PHOTO WIMI3
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WIMI3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Optibelt Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Optibelt Corporation averages 2.8 TCR (125% of the Belting, industrial, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Optibelt Corporation TCR series: 2021=1.9 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=3.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Optibelt Corporation falls in its industry

589 Belting, industrial, merchant establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 28 Belting, industrial, merchant employers in Illinois.

Optibelt Corporation (60 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Optibelt Corporation
Optibelt Corporation (60 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Optibelt Corporation has more employees than the Belting, industrial, merchant wholesaler median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2022 3.2 0.0 2 0 0
2021 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · IL · Bartlett

589 Belting, industrial, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 49 employers in Bartlett, 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 WIMI3 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MANUF 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FLTAM 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Materials Group 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Grand Ridge, IL 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE VDF Agriculture Department 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE AEP Energy - Chicago 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois American Water (Champaign) 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rana Meal Solutions 898 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greco and Sons 425 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bartlett Park District 378 FTE
CITY-NEAR Get Fresh Produce - Bartlett 363 FTE
NAT-TCR Wolfgang Operations LLC - NY 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Logan Health Shelby 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Minnesota Oncology - Edina 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Providence Day* 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sunset Bus Lines, LLC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Seafood Las Vegas, LLC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Metal Recycling Becker 60 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.