Pinball arcades · Illinois

Stern Pinball, Inc.

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~282 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stern Pinball, Inc. runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pinball arcades workplace, earning a grade C.

Stern Pinball, Inc.: 3.0 TCR = 95% of Pinball arcades BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stern Pinball, Inc. safety composite

Stern Pinball, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Stern Pinball, Inc.: 2.6 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2024

Stern Pinball, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 2.6 in 2019 to 3.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713120 · Elk Grove Village, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 95% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Elitch Gardens
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~282 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elitch Gardens (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stern Pinball, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stern Pinball, Inc. averages 3.0 TCR (95% of the Pinball arcades BLS benchmark).

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

Stern Pinball, Inc. TCR series: 2019=2.6 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.1

Where Stern Pinball, Inc. falls in its industry

61 Pinball arcades establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Pinball arcades employers in Illinois.

Stern Pinball, Inc. (282 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Stern Pinball, Inc.
Stern Pinball, Inc. (282 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Stern Pinball, Inc. has more employees than the Pinball arcades median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 3.3 3.3 6 0 0
2019 2.6 1.2 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713120 · IL · Elk Grove Village

61 Pinball arcades employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, 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 Elitch Gardens 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBC Entertainment of Minnesota, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GWE Schaumburg, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kemah Boardwalk 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bagcraft - Chicago 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sterling Steel Company, LLC 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE 531-00539 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1596 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR creative werks, LLC 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL008 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR Meadowbrook at Chetek 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines - BHM 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dfa Distributing West - City of Industry Ca-South 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR YMCA in Hastings 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Camden Operations 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ventra Fowlerville 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menomonie WI 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Astria Toppenish Hospital 282 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, 2019. 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.