Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing · Illinois

Speco Inc

Schiller Park, IL · ~49 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Speco Inc runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Speco Inc: 4.1 TCR = 124% of Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Speco Inc safety composite

Speco Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Speco Inc: 5.9 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.85× in 2024

Speco Inc's TCR rose 1.6 from 5.9 in 2017 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Schiller Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 124% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #12/17
  • PHOTO BELSHAW BROS INC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BELSHAW BROS INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Speco Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Speco Inc averages 4.1 TCR (124% of the Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Speco Inc TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Speco Inc falls in its industry

215 Food choppers, grinders, mixer establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 17 Food choppers, grinders, mixer employers in Illinois.

Speco Inc (49 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Speco Inc
Speco Inc (49 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Speco Inc has fewer employees than the Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and sli median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 7.5 7.5 4 0 0
2023 5.5 5.5 3 0 0
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2021 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.9 4.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · IL · Schiller Park

215 Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 35 employers in Schiller Park, 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 BELSHAW BROS INC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SirSteak Machinery, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Precision Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advance Process Tech inc 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boller Construction Co., Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Pipelining INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM. Aupperle & Sons, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE RI Glass Group 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago (ORD) 785 FTE
CITY-NEAR 239/ORD 614 FTE
CITY-NEAR Varian, Schiller Park 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flying Food Fare 270 FTE
NAT-TCR NEWBERRY 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Beverage 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohio Metallurgical Service, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Beebe Healthcare 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pepe Ganga Manati 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pepe Ganga Caguas 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE CBC Coating 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westcoat Specialty Coating Systems Inc 49 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, 2021, 2020, 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.