Saw blades, all types, manufacturing · Illinois

Simmons Knife & Saw

Glendale Heights, IL · ~78 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Simmons Knife & Saw runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Saw blades, all types, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Simmons Knife & Saw: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Saw blades, all types, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Simmons Knife & Saw safety composite

Simmons Knife & Saw scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Simmons Knife & Saw: 1.1 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Simmons Knife & Saw's TCR rose 2.9 from 1.1 in 2017 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332216 · Glendale Heights, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/17
  • PHOTO Lenox Tools- Irwin I…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lenox Tools- Irwin Industrial Tool Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Simmons Knife & Saw in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Simmons Knife & Saw averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Saw blades, all types, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Simmons Knife & Saw TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.5 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Simmons Knife & Saw falls in its industry

174 Saw blades, all types, manufac establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 17 Saw blades, all types, manufac employers in Illinois.

Simmons Knife & Saw (78 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Simmons Knife & Saw
Simmons Knife & Saw (78 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Simmons Knife & Saw has more employees than the Saw blades, all types, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 4.1 0.0 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.8 1.2 5 0 0
2020 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.9 1.3 3 0 0
2017 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332216 · IL · Glendale Heights

174 Saw blades, all types, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 85 employers in Glendale 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 Lenox Tools- Irwin Industrial Tool Company 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snap-on Milwaukee 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bully Tools 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klein Tools HP 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bedford Grow LLC 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waukegan Station 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago West Tech 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corn Belt Energy Corporation 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks 626 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist GlenOaks Hospital 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAIN 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kronos Foods 380 FTE
NAT-TCR Public Health - Clinical Services 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Moore Calves 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Service Enterprises Inc. Redwood Falls 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas Paving Corp 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mission Trail Waste Systems 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE L.A. Barrier & Son, Inc. 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE CW Young Construction, LP 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Holmes Regional Med Ctr Evs 78 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. 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.