Stair railings, metal, manufacturing · Illinois

Ralph H. Simpson Company

Elmhurst, IL · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ralph H. Simpson Company runs at 266% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Stair railings, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ralph H. Simpson Company: 8.8 TCR = 266% of Stair railings, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ralph H. Simpson Company safety composite

Ralph H. Simpson Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Ralph H. Simpson Company: 11.2 → 16.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2023

Ralph H. Simpson Company's TCR rose 5.5 from 11.2 in 2017 to 16.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332323 · Elmhurst, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 266% of ind

  • DART 10.0 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO United Architectural…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Architectural Metals Inc - Massillon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ralph H. Simpson Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ralph H. Simpson Company averages 8.8 TCR (266% of the Stair railings, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ralph H. Simpson Company TCR series: 2017=11.2 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=0 · 2023=16.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Ralph H. Simpson Company falls in its industry

309 Stair railings, metal, manufac establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Stair railings, metal, manufac employers in Illinois.

Ralph H. Simpson Company (28 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ralph H. Simpson Company
Ralph H. Simpson Company (28 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Ralph H. Simpson Company has fewer employees than the Stair railings, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 16.7 10.0 5 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.3 7.3 2 0 0
2017 11.2 3.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332323 · IL · Elmhurst

309 Stair railings, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 127 employers in Elmhurst, 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 United Architectural Metals Inc - Massillon 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR KEITH CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES, INC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capitol Steel Products South 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S&S Manufacturing 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elmhurst Memorial Hospital 2,864 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Services Inc. 2,331 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elmhurst , IL - 01 1,612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elmhurst Community Unit School 205 1,252 FTE
NAT-TCR High Life 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100631 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 2577 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Channel One Inc 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dickinson Agronomy / Energy 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE USG Shoals, IN 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE G3 Enterprises, Inc. - Grigsby Label 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE AI Main 28 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.