Steel mills · Illinois

Raw Materials Inc

Chicago Heights, IL · ~22 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Raw Materials Inc runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade F.

Raw Materials Inc: 7.2 TCR = 218% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Raw Materials Inc safety composite

Raw Materials Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Raw Materials Inc: 3.2 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2024

Raw Materials Inc's TCR rose 6.4 from 3.2 in 2020 to 9.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 218% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #24/28
  • PHOTO ITW Powertrain Faste…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ITW Powertrain Fasteners (0.0 TCR gap)

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Raw Materials Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Raw Materials Inc averages 7.2 TCR (218% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Raw Materials Inc TCR series: 2020=3.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=16 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Raw Materials Inc falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 28 Steel mills employers in Illinois.

Raw Materials Inc (22 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Raw Materials Inc
Raw Materials Inc (22 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Raw Materials Inc has fewer employees than the Steel mills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 9.6 9.6 3 0 0
2022 16.0 0.0 6 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IL · Chicago Heights

416 Steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, 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 ITW Powertrain Fasteners 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Die Set Corp. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau - Huntington 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rockville 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tolono Main 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anna Evergreen, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunset 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedarcrest, LLC. 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Langhorne Sweetener Terminal 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn Deptford 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Virginia Mn - 3295 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR DMT Camden, AL 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Industries of Central North Carolina Inc - #014 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Planes Moving & Storage of Dayton, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paulk & Griffin, Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Locker Service, Inc. 22 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, 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.