Fabricated plate work manufacturing · Illinois

Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc.

Blue Island, IL · ~58 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc. runs at 361% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated plate work manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc.: 11.9 TCR = 361% of Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc. safety composite

Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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 11.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

TCR Δ

−24.8

2018→2024

Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc. injury rate improved

Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc.'s TCR fell 24.8 from 29.6 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 29.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=29.6 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=13.5 · 2021=10.4 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=14.4 · 2024=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Blue Island, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 361% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #21/21
  • PHOTO Egging SM LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Egging SM LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc. averages 11.9 TCR (361% of the Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc. TCR series: 2018=29.6 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=13.5 · 2021=10.4 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=14.4 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc. falls in its industry

449 Fabricated plate work manufact establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 21 Fabricated plate work manufact employers in Illinois.

Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc. (58 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc.
Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc. (58 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Sawing and Shearing Services, Inc. has more employees than the Fabricated plate work manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 4.8 4.8 3 0 0
2023 14.4 11.2 9 0 0
2022 4.8 4.8 3 0 0
2021 10.4 10.4 6 0 0
2020 13.5 13.5 7 0 0
2019 5.8 3.9 3 0 0
2018 29.6 17.8 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · IL · Blue Island

449 Fabricated plate work manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 27 employers in Blue Island, 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 Egging SM LLC 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Lawrence Holdings, LLC 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SD Industries LLC 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ozark Steel LLC North 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Relay Ops 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - La Salle 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menold Construction and Restoration 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALPA Construction, Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR MetroSouth Medical Center 853 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elementary School 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR 130-Chicago South 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Magnesium Casting Company 117 FTE
NAT-TCR Meadows Park Health and Rehabilitation 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Camilla Live Haul 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage assisted living 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Midland PA 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mubea Shared Services 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Harrison Contracting Inc 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sedgwick Plaza 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drive On Delivery Services LLC 58 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.