Erecting structural steel · Illinois

Penn Services LLC

Palatine, IL · ~69 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Penn Services LLC runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Erecting structural steel workplace, earning a grade D.

Penn Services LLC: 3.7 TCR = 131% of Erecting structural steel BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Penn Services LLC safety composite

Penn Services LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 52%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

2018→2024

Penn Services LLC injury rate improved

Penn Services LLC's TCR fell 9.3 from 10.6 in 2018 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.6 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Palatine, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 131% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #10/30
  • PHOTO Gitzen Companies, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gitzen Companies, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Penn Services LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Penn Services LLC averages 3.7 TCR (131% of the Erecting structural steel BLS benchmark).

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

Penn Services LLC TCR series: 2018=10.6 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=3 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Penn Services LLC falls in its industry

705 Erecting structural steel establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 30 Erecting structural steel employers in Illinois.

Penn Services LLC (69 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Penn Services LLC
Penn Services LLC (69 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Penn Services LLC has more employees than the Erecting structural steel median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2023 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2021 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2020 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2019 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2018 10.6 8.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · IL · Palatine

705 Erecting structural steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Palatine, 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 Gitzen Companies, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR McClure Brothers Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR wenona 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer HiBred International Inc. McLeansboro Production 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Litchfield 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2057-Centralia, IL (Monsanto Co.) 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hennepin Power Station 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Consolidated School District 15 1,957 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILPAL - PALATINE 1,701 FTE
CITY-NEAR PALATINE (ILPAL) 1,639 FTE
CITY-NEAR William Rainey Harper College 1,553 FTE
NAT-TCR Anderson Air Conditioning, LP 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Protective Coatings 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamond Mfg. Co. DBA: McKey Perforating Co. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 06 - FW 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE METRIX Instruments 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mueller Corporation 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Batavia PDC 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bucks Fabricating 69 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.