Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing · Illinois

Powertrain Rockford

Loves Park, IL · ~257 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Powertrain Rockford runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Powertrain Rockford: 9.6 TCR = 292% of Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Powertrain Rockford safety composite

Powertrain Rockford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

−3.1

2019→2024

Powertrain Rockford injury rate improved

Powertrain Rockford's TCR fell 3.1 from 11.2 in 2019 to 8.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7368.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=11.2 · 2023=7368.4 · 2024=8.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333613 · Loves Park, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 292% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO Belden Universal
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~257 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Belden Universal (0.4 TCR gap)

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Powertrain Rockford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Powertrain Rockford averages 9.6 TCR (292% of the Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Powertrain Rockford TCR series: 2019=11.2 · 2023=7368.4 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Powertrain Rockford falls in its industry

111 Ball joints (except aircraft, establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Ball joints (except aircraft, employers in Illinois.

Powertrain Rockford (257 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Powertrain Rockford
Powertrain Rockford (257 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Powertrain Rockford has more employees than the Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 8.1 8.1 13 0 0
2023 7368.4 6842.1 13 1 0
2019 11.2 9.4 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333613 · IL · Loves Park

111 Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 59 employers in Loves Park, 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 Belden Universal 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van Zeeland Manufacturing, Inc. 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Tsubaki 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Babbitt Bearing 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Electric Conduit Construction Company 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago 31st Street Manufacturing Facility 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sierra International 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patson Inc.- Elmhurst York 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Loves Park Campus 1,186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rock Cut Campus 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR Danfoss LLC 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mondelez International-Rockford Plant 405 FTE
NAT-TCR Dublin Millwork 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Starbucks - East End 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jones Produce Inc 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Spoerl Trucking 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lewco Inc. 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pure Fishing - Kansas City 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evolution Fresh 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Donaldson Company 257 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, 2019. 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.