Coal chutes, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Illinois

Sheet Metal Werks, Inc

Arlington Heights, IL · ~44 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheet Metal Werks, Inc runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Coal chutes, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sheet Metal Werks, Inc: 6.3 TCR = 189% of Coal chutes, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheet Metal Werks, Inc safety composite

Sheet Metal Werks, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Sheet Metal Werks, Inc: 4.8 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

Sheet Metal Werks, Inc's TCR rose 0.7 from 4.8 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Arlington Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 189% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #40/54
  • PHOTO Nailor Industries of…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nailor Industries of Texas - Mesa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheet Metal Werks, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheet Metal Werks, Inc averages 6.3 TCR (189% of the Coal chutes, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sheet Metal Werks, Inc TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=11.7 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=4.8 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Sheet Metal Werks, Inc falls in its industry

1,158 Coal chutes, sheet metal (exce establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #40 safest of 54 Coal chutes, sheet metal (exce employers in Illinois.

Sheet Metal Werks, Inc (44 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheet Metal Werks, Inc
Sheet Metal Werks, Inc (44 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Sheet Metal Werks, Inc has fewer employees than the Coal chutes, sheet metal (except stampin 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 5.5 3.7 3 0 0
2023 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2022 4.7 2.4 2 0 0
2020 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2019 8.9 4.5 4 0 0
2018 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2017 11.7 0.0 5 0 0
2016 4.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · IL · Arlington Heights

1,158 Coal chutes, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 121 employers in Arlington Heights, 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 Nailor Industries of Texas - Mesa 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CONTECH PIAMP 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR High Tech Fabricators 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3-Dimensional Services 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2570-Thomasboro, IL (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative Paxton Headquarters 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Illini Elec. Coop. Paxton Heaquarters 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwest Community Hospital 3,365 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARLINGTON HEIGHTS SCHOOL DISTRICT 25 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4813-48130002-ENCORE CHICAGO 845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Home and Serv For The Aged 796 FTE
NAT-TCR Trenton Group Inc. d/b/a Hanover Concrete Co. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Biomass One 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 109 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR General Metals Corp. 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fletcher's Plumbing & Contracting, Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mineral Point Health Services 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Lake Mary 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hopedale 44 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.