Aluminum alloys made from scrap or dross · Illinois

Real Alloy Recycling, LLC

Chicago Heights, IL · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Real Alloy Recycling, LLC runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aluminum alloys made from scrap or dross workplace, earning a grade D.

Real Alloy Recycling, LLC: 4.7 TCR = 142% of Aluminum alloys made from scrap or dross BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Real Alloy Recycling, LLC safety composite

Real Alloy Recycling, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Real Alloy Recycling, LLC: 0.0 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2023

Real Alloy Recycling, LLC's TCR rose 7.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 7.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331314 · Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 142% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Trialco
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trialco (0.0 TCR gap)

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Real Alloy Recycling, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Real Alloy Recycling, LLC averages 4.7 TCR (142% of the Aluminum alloys made from scrap or dross BLS benchmark).

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

Real Alloy Recycling, LLC TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=11.2 · 2023=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Real Alloy Recycling, LLC falls in its industry

103 Aluminum alloys made from scra establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Aluminum alloys made from scra employers in Illinois.

Real Alloy Recycling, LLC (56 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Real Alloy Recycling, LLC
Real Alloy Recycling, LLC (56 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Real Alloy Recycling, LLC has fewer employees than the Aluminum alloys made from scrap or dross median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 7.6 6.1 4 1 0
2021 11.2 11.2 6 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331314 · IL · Chicago Heights

103 Aluminum alloys made from scrap or dross 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 Trialco 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toyal America, Inc 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOST TN 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tennessee Aluminum Processors, INC 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bulk Power Operations 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norris Electric Cooperative 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 73G - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schaumburg Reporting Center 56 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 Bayloff Stamped Products 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Roedel Partners of Auburn, LLC 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Land O Lakes - Pine Island, MN 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Nebraska Warehouse Company 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Downing Construction Inc 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gurney Trucking, INC Washington, UT 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wayfield Foods Store 1 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Field 56 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, 2019, 2018. 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.