Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants · Illinois

Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant

Bridgeview, IL · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant runs at 253% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant: 8.3 TCR = 253% of Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant safety composite

Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant: 8.4 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant's TCR rose 2.5 from 8.4 in 2021 to 11.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Bridgeview, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 253% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Bedford Hts
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bedford Hts (0.1 TCR gap)

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Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant averages 8.3 TCR (253% of the Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant TCR series: 2021=8.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=14 · 2024=11 · BLS 3.3

Where Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant falls in its industry

163 Wire products, iron or steel, establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Wire products, iron or steel, employers in Illinois.

Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant (24 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant
Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant (24 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Taubensee Steel & Wire Bridgeview Plant has fewer employees than the Wire products, iron or steel, made in wi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 11.0 5.5 2 0 0
2023 14.0 14.0 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.4 4.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · IL · Bridgeview

163 Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 65 employers in Bridgeview, 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 Bedford Hts 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TOKUSEN - CONWAY 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR O&k American - Seymour Plant 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire Products - Hazleton, PA 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE C70 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hecate Grid LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG DeKalb Reporting Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCNA Prairie LLC 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foodservice : BRIDGEVIEW 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bridgeview 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR CC 300654 BRIDGEVIEW PLT 374 FTE
NAT-TCR 135 - Richmond 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hollister Super #2 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEB4 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works Department 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fruitland VAF 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stanton DE Yard 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE COH Crime Lab 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clarion, IA 24 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.