Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Ryerson-Elgin IL

Elgin, IL · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ryerson-Elgin IL runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Ryerson-Elgin IL: 7.5 TCR = 341% of Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ryerson-Elgin IL safety composite

Ryerson-Elgin IL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Ryerson-Elgin IL: 4.2 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2020

Ryerson-Elgin IL's TCR rose 6.7 from 4.2 in 2019 to 10.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Elgin, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 341% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #90/107
  • PHOTO PACIFIC MACHINERY & …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PACIFIC MACHINERY & TOOL STEEL COMPANY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ryerson-Elgin IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ryerson-Elgin IL averages 7.5 TCR (341% of the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ryerson-Elgin IL TCR series: 2019=4.2 · 2020=10.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Ryerson-Elgin IL falls in its industry

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #90 safest of 107 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal employers in Illinois.

Ryerson-Elgin IL (21 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ryerson-Elgin IL
Ryerson-Elgin IL (21 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Ryerson-Elgin IL has fewer employees than the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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
2020 10.8 10.8 2 0 0
2019 4.2 4.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · Elgin

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers 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 PACIFIC MACHINERY & TOOL STEEL COMPANY 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BRANCH 02 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Coast Steel & Processing 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paragon Steel 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frank W. Lewis & Son Seed FArms, Inc 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE RAVENS LIVESTOCK & FARMS INC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bushnell 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 21st Century Sow Farm 21 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 The Valley Fertilizer & Chemical Co., Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NAPA Carrollton 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunnybrook 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Technica LLC Fort Irwin 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sharp Rees-Stealy-SC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Germantown Satellite Facility 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 558 - Oldsmar-Int Branch 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Praxair INC. Southeast Servive Center 21 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: 2020, 2019. 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.