Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade · Illinois

TC Industries, Inc.

Crystal Lake, IL · ~246 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TC Industries, Inc. runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

TC Industries, Inc.: 4.8 TCR = 145% of Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TC Industries, Inc. safety composite

TC Industries, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

TC Industries, Inc.: 4.8 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2024

TC Industries, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.2 from 4.8 in 2022 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332811 · Crystal Lake, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #15/24
  • PHOTO State Heat Treating
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~246 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: State Heat Treating (0.0 TCR gap)

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TC Industries, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TC Industries, Inc. averages 4.8 TCR (145% of the Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

TC Industries, Inc. TCR series: 2022=4.8 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.3

Where TC Industries, Inc. falls in its industry

248 Hardening (i.e., heat treating establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 24 Hardening (i.e., heat treating employers in Illinois.

TC Industries, Inc. (246 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate TC Industries, Inc.
TC Industries, Inc. (246 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2

TC Industries, Inc. has more employees than the Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals a median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 8.0 5.3 18 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 4 0 0
2022 4.8 3.3 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332811 · IL · Crystal Lake

248 Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 101 employers in Crystal Lake, 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 State Heat Treating 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GA Richards Group 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Treat All Metals 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nitrex Inc - Nevada Operations 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Distribution Dispatch Center 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE RG Construction Services, Inc. 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cheese Merchants of America 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE FGS Precise LLC 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR McHenry County College 695 FTE
CITY-NEAR Customer Service Crystal Lake Product Center 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1413 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1413 432 FTE
NAT-TCR Madison West Wi - 3058 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hoodland Foods LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenix Operations 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 623-PL001 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davenport Ia - 3315 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE WI115 Neenah Research Center 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sussex I State Prison 246 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. 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.