Cafeteria fixtures manufacturing · Illinois

Southern Imperial - Rockford

Rockford, IL · ~221 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Imperial - Rockford runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cafeteria fixtures manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Imperial - Rockford: 4.5 TCR = 135% of Cafeteria fixtures manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Imperial - Rockford safety composite

Southern Imperial - Rockford scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Southern Imperial - Rockford: 0.5 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2018

Southern Imperial - Rockford's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.5 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337215 · Rockford, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #13/26
  • PHOTO Super Sagless Hardware
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~221 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Super Sagless Hardware (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Imperial - Rockford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Imperial - Rockford averages 4.5 TCR (135% of the Cafeteria fixtures manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Imperial - Rockford TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Imperial - Rockford falls in its industry

231 Cafeteria fixtures manufacturi establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 26 Cafeteria fixtures manufacturi employers in Illinois.

Southern Imperial - Rockford (221 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Imperial - Rockford
Southern Imperial - Rockford (221 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Southern Imperial - Rockford has more employees than the Cafeteria fixtures manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2018 4.5 3.0 9 0 0
2017 8.4 4.8 7 0 0
2016 0.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337215 · IL · Rockford

231 Cafeteria fixtures manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 405 employers in Rockford, 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 Super Sagless Hardware 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pipp Office 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linwood FBG 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jahabow LLC 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE AUSTIN TYLER CONSTRUCTION, INC 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wyckles 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lapham-Hickey Steel Corporation 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5472-NAI-0032-0032-00080 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILRKF - ROCKFORD AIR HUB 2,634 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish American Hospital - 4800 2,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCI Pharma Services Rockford 2,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR SwedishAmerican Hospital 1,855 FTE
NAT-TCR GKN Sinter Metals, LLC. Germantown 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mosaic Life Care Medical Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #740 (Morris, MN) 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR White Bear Lake, MN Container Graphics Corporation 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE MEPPI512 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exacta Aerospace 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant Victor Daniel 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Punta Gorda 221 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.