Press forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Illinois

Reliable Machine Company

Rockford, IL · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Reliable Machine Company runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Press forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Reliable Machine Company: 8.9 TCR = 270% of Press forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Reliable Machine Company safety composite

Reliable Machine Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.38 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%).

Rising injury rate

Reliable Machine Company: 7.1 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2017

Reliable Machine Company's TCR rose 3.7 from 7.1 in 2016 to 10.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Rockford, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 270% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #16/19
  • PHOTO Tekfor, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tekfor, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Reliable Machine Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Reliable Machine Company averages 8.9 TCR (270% of the Press forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Reliable Machine Company TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=10.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Reliable Machine Company falls in its industry

241 Press forgings made from purch establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 19 Press forgings made from purch employers in Illinois.

Reliable Machine Company (29 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 Reliable Machine Company
Reliable Machine Company (29 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Reliable Machine Company has fewer employees than the Press forgings made from purchased iron median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2017 10.8 5.4 2 0 0
2016 7.1 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · IL · Rockford

241 Press forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 405 employers in Rockford, 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 Tekfor, Inc 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Forge Tennessee LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BERKELEY FORGE & TOOL, INC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RDF&P 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grant Park 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILRKF - ROCKFORD AIR HUB 2,634 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish American Hospital - 4800 2,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCI Pharma Services Rockford 2,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR SwedishAmerican Hospital 1,855 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3021 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Lighthouse 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Livonia Woods-Livonia Woods SNF 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Arc Twin Cities Brooklyn Center 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0109 - Norfolk, Va 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0097 - Raleigh, Nc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0016 - Modesto, Ca 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-West Roofing Company 29 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: 2017, 2016. 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.