Abrasive products manufacturing · Illinois

Radiac Abrasives - Salem

Salem, IL · ~260 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Radiac Abrasives - Salem runs at 278% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Abrasive products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Radiac Abrasives - Salem: 9.2 TCR = 278% of Abrasive products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Radiac Abrasives - Salem safety composite

Radiac Abrasives - Salem scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Radiac Abrasives - Salem: 5.2 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2019

Radiac Abrasives - Salem's TCR rose 3.9 from 5.2 in 2017 to 9.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327910 · Salem, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 278% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Micro Abrasives Corp.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 63 inj
  • SIZE ~260 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Micro Abrasives Corp. (0.3 TCR gap)

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Radiac Abrasives - Salem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Radiac Abrasives - Salem averages 9.2 TCR (278% of the Abrasive products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Radiac Abrasives - Salem TCR series: 2017=5.2 · 2018=13.2 · 2019=9.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Radiac Abrasives - Salem falls in its industry

90 Abrasive products manufacturin establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #12 safest of 13 Abrasive products manufacturin employers in Illinois.

Radiac Abrasives - Salem (260 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Radiac Abrasives - Salem
Radiac Abrasives - Salem (260 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Radiac Abrasives - Salem has more employees than the Abrasive products 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
2019 9.1 6.3 16 3 0
2018 13.2 10.7 32 0 0
2017 5.2 3.8 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327910 · IL · Salem

90 Abrasive products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 40 employers in Salem, 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 Micro Abrasives Corp. 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metaltec Steel Abrasive Company 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rex-Cut Products, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Radiac Abrasives Inc. - Marysville 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MPS Woodridge 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Cable LLC - Thomas 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloomingdale 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer Store 207 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAL SALEM PLANT 1,133 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Lighting - Salem 1,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 198 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR 198 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Sutter Outpatient Services, LLC (600-73) 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise Rent A Car 351E 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Orleans Parish 25061 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1010 Lawrence Rd 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Verso Corporation 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardinal CG - Spring Green CG 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1250 Haddonfield-Berlin Rd 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE 112 West Park Drive 260 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: 2019, 2018, 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.