Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Illinois

Star Forge Inc

Freeport, IL · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Star Forge Inc runs at 381% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Star Forge Inc: 12.6 TCR = 381% of Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Star Forge Inc safety composite

Star Forge Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Star Forge Inc held a steady TCR band

Star Forge Inc's TCR held near 0.3 from 12.4 in 2017 to 12.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.4 · 2018=12.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Freeport, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 381% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #18/19
  • PHOTO 2395_4367
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2395_4367 (0.2 TCR gap)

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Star Forge Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Star Forge Inc averages 12.6 TCR (381% of the Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Star Forge Inc TCR series: 2017=12.4 · 2018=12.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Star Forge Inc falls in its industry

241 Cold forgings made from purcha establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 19 Cold forgings made from purcha employers in Illinois.

Star Forge Inc (59 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Star Forge Inc
Star Forge Inc (59 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Star Forge Inc has fewer employees than the Cold forgings made from purchased iron o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2018 12.7 9.9 9 0 0
2017 12.4 6.2 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · IL · Freeport

241 Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 74 employers in Freeport, 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 2395_4367 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bharat Forge PMT 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LODI IRON WORKS 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schaefer Tool and Manufacturing Co. Inc. 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cornbelt Fire Protection District 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Exelon Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Electric Field Meter Services 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0G5 - Gas Tech - Engineering 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR FHN - Memorial Hospital 1,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR FHN 1,057 FTE
CITY-NEAR Helm Mechanical 842 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell 630 FTE
NAT-TCR SRA Track, LLC 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Galveston Waterpark Management Inc. 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 2134 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 0445 - Murrieta, Ca 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lowell C. Hagen Trucking, Inc 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Autcoat, LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Department 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Armortech Windows and Doors Clearwater 59 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. 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.