Drywall contractors · Illinois

Russ's Drywall, Inc

Elgin, IL · ~93 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Russ's Drywall, Inc runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Russ's Drywall, Inc: 6.5 TCR = 233% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Russ's Drywall, Inc safety composite

Russ's Drywall, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Russ's Drywall, Inc: 4.6 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2024

Russ's Drywall, Inc's TCR rose 5.6 from 4.6 in 2018 to 10.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Elgin, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 233% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #44/50
  • PHOTO Summit Wall Systems,…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Summit Wall Systems, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Russ's Drywall, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Russ's Drywall, Inc averages 6.5 TCR (233% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Russ's Drywall, Inc TCR series: 2018=4.6 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Russ's Drywall, Inc falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 50 Drywall contractors employers in Illinois.

Russ's Drywall, Inc (93 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Russ's Drywall, Inc
Russ's Drywall, Inc (93 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Russ's Drywall, Inc has more employees than the Drywall contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 10.2 8.2 5 0 0
2023 9.1 5.5 5 0 0
2022 3.4 0.0 2 0 0
2021 6.9 3.4 6 0 0
2020 5.9 3.0 8 0 0
2019 5.5 3.9 7 0 0
2018 4.6 1.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · IL · Elgin

1,613 Drywall contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, 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 Summit Wall Systems, Inc 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Contractor Services #845 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 492 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Coast Insulators #570A 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE ILAWC Interurban 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, LaSalle Station 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinney Contractors Inc 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tecta America 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Sherman Hospital 1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elgin 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin 774 FTE
NAT-TCR Leonard Valve Company 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kreamer Feed Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Events Company 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kenworth Albany 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Werdco Bc Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Los Angeles 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Triumph Sheets 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE MTS Grand Prairie 93 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. 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.