Paving brick, clay, manufacturing · Illinois

Richards Brick Company

Edwardsville, IL · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richards Brick Company runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paving brick, clay, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Richards Brick Company: 2.0 TCR = 62% of Paving brick, clay, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richards Brick Company safety composite

Richards Brick Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.2

2017→2019

Richards Brick Company injury rate improved

Richards Brick Company's TCR fell 6.2 from 6.2 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Edwardsville, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Lawrenceville Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lawrenceville Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richards Brick Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richards Brick Company averages 2.0 TCR (62% of the Paving brick, clay, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Richards Brick Company TCR series: 2017=6.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Richards Brick Company falls in its industry

307 Paving brick, clay, manufactur establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Paving brick, clay, manufactur employers in Illinois.

Richards Brick Company (26 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Richards Brick Company
Richards Brick Company (26 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Richards Brick Company has fewer employees than the Paving brick, clay, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.2 6.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · IL · Edwardsville

307 Paving brick, clay, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 105 employers in Edwardsville, 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 Lawrenceville Plant 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vesuvius Research Pittsburgh - Flow Control 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dal-Tile Marazzi Tile Sunnyvale 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakewood Brick 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rock River - Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill 'N Dale Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Generation 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAIC2 1,167 FTE
CITY-NEAR J.F. Electric, Incorporated 989 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : STL4 905 FTE
CITY-NEAR Madison County Government 886 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 26708 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 044 ABC Supply Co., Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chehalem Winery 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Technology Plastics LLC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE MARINEMAX East INC-HM5 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE CBC - Grand Island Plant 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie Construction,L.L.C. 26 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.