Machine shops · Illinois

Technical Metals, Inc.

Fairbury, IL · ~67 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Technical Metals, Inc. runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Technical Metals, Inc.: 6.4 TCR = 193% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Technical Metals, Inc. safety composite

Technical Metals, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Technical Metals, Inc.: 3.9 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2024

Technical Metals, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.1 from 3.9 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Fairbury, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 193% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #87/103
  • PHOTO Viewriver Machine Corp
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Viewriver Machine Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Technical Metals, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Technical Metals, Inc. averages 6.4 TCR (193% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Technical Metals, Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=13.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=5 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Technical Metals, Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #87 safest of 103 Machine shops employers in Illinois.

Technical Metals, Inc. (67 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Technical Metals, Inc.
Technical Metals, Inc. (67 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Technical Metals, Inc. has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 5.0 1.7 3 0 0
2023 5.0 3.3 3 0 0
2022 9.8 1.6 6 0 0
2021 9.8 8.2 5 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 13.7 6.9 10 0 0
2018 3.7 2.5 3 0 0
2016 3.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IL · Fairbury

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 6 employers in Fairbury, 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 Viewriver Machine Corp 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Babbitt Bearings, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Engineering 2085 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waiteco Machine LLC 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decatur Cogeneration 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE SWECO - Chicago 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Galesburg 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE 75G - Western S - IL Gas Ops 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairview Haven, Inc. 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dave's Supermarket 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edelman, LLC 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR PTC Tubular Products LLC Fairbury Plant 83 FTE
NAT-TCR Pre-School 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc - Lehigh Children's Academy 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ElecComm Corporation 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines - GRB 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lubrication Specialties 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE EC Constructors, Inc. 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Machine Specialty & Manufacturing, Inc. - Youngsville 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elkhart Plastics 67 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.