Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing · Illinois

Raco Steel Company

Markham, IL · ~39 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Raco Steel Company runs at 314% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Raco Steel Company: 10.3 TCR = 314% of Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Raco Steel Company safety composite

Raco Steel Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−14.2

2017→2023

Raco Steel Company injury rate improved

Raco Steel Company's TCR fell 14.2 from 18.7 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 18.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=18.7 · 2020=13.6 · 2021=4.6 · 2023=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Markham, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 314% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #54/58
  • PHOTO Asta Industires
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Asta Industires (0.0 TCR gap)

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Raco Steel Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Raco Steel Company averages 10.3 TCR (314% of the Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Raco Steel Company TCR series: 2017=18.7 · 2020=13.6 · 2021=4.6 · 2023=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Raco Steel Company falls in its industry

827 Tubing, flexible metal, manufa establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #54 safest of 58 Tubing, flexible metal, manufa employers in Illinois.

Raco Steel Company (39 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 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 Raco Steel Company
Raco Steel Company (39 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Raco Steel Company has fewer employees than the Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing 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
2023 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2021 4.6 2.3 4 0 0
2020 13.6 10.9 2 3 0
2017 18.7 4.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · IL · Markham

827 Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 22 employers in Markham, 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 Asta Industires 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DuBose Strapping Indiana 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 480 Manufacturing 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2356_4302 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's El Paso 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Glen Nursery, Inc 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Joliet Generating Station 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Bloomington 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - IGQ1 2,441 FTE
CITY-NEAR STA-Markham (MDW-210) 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reyes Group Ltd 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Markham 122 FTE
NAT-TCR New Perspective - Prior Lake 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Apex Fire Systems Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Edina - Fire Station 1 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE BT Tallahassee 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allan Edwards Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE HT Pho-Tronics 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenway Electrical Services LLC 39 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, 2021, 2020, 2017. 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.