Manufacturing · Illinois

Southwire Company Flora Plant

Flora, IL · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwire Company Flora Plant runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Southwire Company Flora Plant: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwire Company Flora Plant safety composite

Southwire Company Flora Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−3.9

2016→2017

Southwire Company Flora Plant injury rate improved

Southwire Company Flora Plant's TCR fell 3.9 from 3.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.9 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Flora, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Pennex Aluminum Comp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pennex Aluminum Company - Leetonia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwire Company Flora Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwire Company Flora Plant averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southwire Company Flora Plant TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Southwire Company Flora Plant falls in its industry

204 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Southwire Company Flora Plant (29 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 Southwire Company Flora Plant
Southwire Company Flora Plant (29 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Southwire Company Flora Plant has fewer employees than the Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.9 3.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · IL · Flora

204 Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 31 employers in Flora, 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 Pennex Aluminum Company - Leetonia 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydro - Portland Main Plant 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aluminum Extruded Shapes 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaiser Aluminum Richland 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grant Park 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Lighting - Flora 1,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAL FLORA PLANT 851 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hella Electronics Corporation 347 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clay County Hospital 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Oak Creek - Aldi 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5243 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AMEREN SERVICES - Telecom Field Ops - AIC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cincinnati One Hour Heating and Air 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0109 - Norfolk, Va 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0097 - Raleigh, Nc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0016 - Modesto, Ca 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-West Roofing Company 29 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: 2017, 2016. 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.