Natural gas pipeline construction · Illinois

Pipe Strong, LLC

Schaumburg, IL · ~127 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pipe Strong, LLC runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Natural gas pipeline construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Pipe Strong, LLC: 1.1 TCR = 40% of Natural gas pipeline construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pipe Strong, LLC safety composite

Pipe Strong, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Pipe Strong, LLC: 0.9 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Pipe Strong, LLC's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.9 in 2020 to 1.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237120 · Schaumburg, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 40% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #16/24
  • PHOTO Advanced Contracting…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Contracting Group, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pipe Strong, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pipe Strong, LLC averages 1.1 TCR (40% of the Natural gas pipeline construction BLS benchmark).

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

Pipe Strong, LLC TCR series: 2020=0.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Pipe Strong, LLC falls in its industry

809 Natural gas pipeline construct establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 24 Natural gas pipeline construct employers in Illinois.

Pipe Strong, LLC (127 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate Pipe Strong, LLC
Pipe Strong, LLC (127 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7

Pipe Strong, LLC has fewer employees than the Natural gas pipeline construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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 1.9 1.0 2 0 0
2023 1.7 1.7 3 0 0
2022 1.1 0.5 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237120 · IL · Schaumburg

809 Natural gas pipeline construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 246 employers in Schaumburg, 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 Advanced Contracting Group, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR R&R Pipeline Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mach Energy Service LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gas Field Specialists, Inc. 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pershing 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Readycare Waukegan 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE PLZ Corp 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE P&P Industries 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6354-OFFS 3,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaumburg Community Consolidated School District No. 54 2,876 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nation Pizza & Foods (Schaumburg) 1,320 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL02 1,301 FTE
NAT-TCR Hyatt Centric The Woodlands 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Edgen Murray Corporation 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Strack, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Annex Coach Services 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Perform Air International 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 387 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6325 127 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. 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.