Engineering research and development laboratories or services · Illinois

Rockford Lab

Rockford, IL · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rockford Lab runs at 360% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Engineering research and development laboratories or services workplace, earning a grade F.

Rockford Lab: 1.8 TCR = 360% of Engineering research and development laboratories or services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rockford Lab safety composite

Rockford Lab scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−3.6

2016→2017

Rockford Lab injury rate improved

Rockford Lab's TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.6 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541712 · Rockford, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 1.8 · 360% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO Agricenter Internati…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agricenter International (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rockford Lab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rockford Lab averages 1.8 TCR (360% of the Engineering research and development laboratories or services BLS benchmark).

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

Rockford Lab TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=0 · BLS 0.5

Where Rockford Lab falls in its industry

319 Engineering research and devel establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 14 Engineering research and devel employers in Illinois.

Rockford Lab (49 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Rockford Lab
Rockford Lab (49 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8

Rockford Lab has fewer employees than the Engineering research and development lab median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541712 · IL · Rockford

319 Engineering research and development laboratories or services 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 Agricenter International 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fortitude (BSA) 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ICM, Inc. Technology Development 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CTI-SF 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boller Construction Co., Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Pipelining INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM. Aupperle & Sons, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE RI Glass Group 49 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 01-Memphis TN 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pinebluff Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Wagram 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3203 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE AAA Worldwide Transportation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Elk Rapids 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE AKA Tree Removal 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Mansfield LLC 49 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.