Aluminum die-casting foundries · Illinois

Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location

Sparta, IL · ~483 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Aluminum die-casting foundries workplace, earning a grade C.

Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Aluminum die-casting foundries BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location safety composite

Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.3

2016→2021

Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location injury rate improved

Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location's TCR fell 4.3 from 5.5 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.5 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331523 · Sparta, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #5/17
  • PHOTO Cascade Die Casting …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 97 inj
  • SIZE ~483 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cascade Die Casting Group - Great Lakes (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Aluminum die-casting foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location falls in its industry

221 Aluminum die-casting foundries establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 17 Aluminum die-casting foundries employers in Illinois.

Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location (483 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location
Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location (483 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Spartan Light Metal Products Sparta Location has more employees than the Aluminum die-casting foundries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2021 1.3 1.3 4 0 0
2020 3.4 2.5 11 0 0
2019 2.6 0.7 11 0 0
2018 2.6 0.4 13 0 0
2017 3.3 0.7 19 0 0
2016 5.5 1.1 39 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331523 · IL · Sparta

221 Aluminum die-casting foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 12 employers in Sparta, 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 Cascade Die Casting Group - Great Lakes 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minneapolis Die Casting LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3520_6712 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boyd Corporation Allenton 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Highland Baking Company 483 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reynolds Consumer Products- Jacksonville West Plant 483 FTE
STATE-SIZE Senior Services Plus 483 FTE
STATE-SIZE Double P Corporation 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sparta Community Hospital 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sparta CUSD 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 222 247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 222 246 FTE
NAT-TCR Moody Construction and Sons, Inc 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR All Service Plastic Molding, Inc. Falls Creek 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CalmaxTechnologies01 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 105000-Washington Dc Po 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2288-HQ1 483 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haskins Electric - AZ 483 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc 483 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wrightstown (formerly Coating Excellence International LLC) 483 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: 2021, 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.