Screws, metal, manufacturing · Illinois

Rockford Ball Screw

Rockford, IL · ~70 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rockford Ball Screw runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Screws, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Rockford Ball Screw: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Screws, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rockford Ball Screw safety composite

Rockford Ball Screw scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Rockford Ball Screw: 4.0 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2024

Rockford Ball Screw's TCR rose 4.6 from 4.0 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332722 · Rockford, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #34/53
  • PHOTO LEP SPECIAL FASTENERS
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LEP SPECIAL FASTENERS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rockford Ball Screw in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rockford Ball Screw averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Screws, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rockford Ball Screw TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=0 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=8.8 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Rockford Ball Screw falls in its industry

335 Screws, metal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 53 Screws, metal, manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Rockford Ball Screw (70 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Rockford Ball Screw
Rockford Ball Screw (70 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Rockford Ball Screw has fewer employees than the Screws, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 8.6 5.7 6 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 3 0 0
2022 2.8 0.0 2 0 0
2021 4.2 4.2 3 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2019 8.8 6.3 7 0 0
2018 4.4 4.4 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332722 · IL · Rockford

335 Screws, metal, manufacturing 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 LEP SPECIAL FASTENERS 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlas Bolt & Screw Ashland 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BRISTOL INDUSTRIES INC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITW Shakeproof Group - Iron Ridge, WI 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2510-Waterman, IL-R&D (Monsanto Co.) 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stewart Spreading Inc 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Duck Creek Power Station 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cahokia IL 70 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 RLG - Teklabel 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Colusa 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Packaging Co., Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Trupar America 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eastside Services, LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE I25 North - 061802 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Hwy 85 - 062214 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Subaru of Rochester 70 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.