Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel · Illinois

Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling

Wheeling, IL · ~112 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling runs at 298% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade F.

Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling: 9.8 TCR = 298% of Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling safety composite

Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−5.1

2019→2020

Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling injury rate improved

Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling's TCR fell 5.1 from 12.4 in 2019 to 7.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=12.4 · 2020=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Wheeling, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 298% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO WireTech Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WireTech Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling averages 9.8 TCR (298% of the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling TCR series: 2019=12.4 · 2020=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling falls in its industry

163 Drawing iron or steel wire fro establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #11 safest of 14 Drawing iron or steel wire fro employers in Illinois.

Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling (112 employees, TCR 9.8) 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 Co. - Wheeling
Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling (112 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Taubensee Steel & Wire Co. - Wheeling has more employees than the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchase 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
2020 7.3 6.5 9 0 0
2019 12.4 8.3 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · IL · Wheeling

163 Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 136 employers in Wheeling, 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 WireTech Inc. 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oklahoma Steel & Wire 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TOKUSEN U.S.A., INC 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taubensee Steel and Wire Company - Henderson 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Home Forever Baths Company (DBA- Pacific Bath Chicago) 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lindblad Construction Company of Joliet, Inc. 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE G. E. Riddiford Company, Inc. 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE FE Moran Special Hazards 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL-01 4,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeling School District 21 967 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office - 01 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Response Team 1 728 FTE
NAT-TCR Latham Packaged Pools - Bossier City 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Windward Gardens 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Homestead Rehabilitation & HealthCare Center 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 2073-SW-20730218-CS-SW 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sioux City Fire Rescue 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint John Paul II Center 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amneal Pharmaceuticals-47 Col Drive 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE FI - Boca Raton, LLC 112 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.