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

Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant

Wheeling, IL · ~123 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade D.

Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant safety composite

Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

−2.0

2021→2024

Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant injury rate improved

Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant's TCR fell 2.0 from 6.1 in 2021 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.1 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #7/14
  • PHOTO Nippon Steel Cold He…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant averages 6.3 TCR (191% 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 Wheeling Plant TCR series: 2021=6.1 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant falls in its industry

163 Drawing iron or steel wire fro establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #7 safest of 14 Drawing iron or steel wire fro employers in Illinois.

Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant (123 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant
Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant (123 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Taubensee Steel & Wire Wheeling Plant 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
2024 4.1 1.6 5 0 0
2023 5.7 4.0 7 0 0
2022 9.3 4.3 13 0 0
2021 6.1 5.3 8 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 Nippon Steel Cold Heading Wire Indiana Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LABECA - Ferguson 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wire Mesh Texas 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Material Development 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Oak Forest - Public Works 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Midwest (Chicago) 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reyes Group Ltd 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iroquois Paving Corporation 123 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 Grain Craft LA 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Plochman 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ames Center for Digital Commerce (ACDC) 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR PF MPW SNF Ops, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alloy Surfaces Company Inc. 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0792 Franklin 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Marine, LLC 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8027604 Heartland Automotive 123 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.