Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Illinois

Tempel Steel Company

Chicago, IL · ~396 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tempel Steel Company runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade A.

Tempel Steel Company: 1.1 TCR = 35% of Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tempel Steel Company safety composite

Tempel Steel Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

Tempel Steel Company held a steady TCR band

Tempel Steel Company's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.4 in 2018 to 0.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.4 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/19
  • PHOTO Superior Forge and S…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~396 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Superior Forge and Steel - Pittsburgh (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tempel Steel Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tempel Steel Company averages 1.1 TCR (35% of the Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Tempel Steel Company TCR series: 2018=0.4 · 2019=3 · 2020=0.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Tempel Steel Company falls in its industry

241 Forgings made from purchased i establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 19 Forgings made from purchased i employers in Illinois.

Tempel Steel Company (396 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tempel Steel Company
Tempel Steel Company (396 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Tempel Steel Company has more employees than the Forgings made from purchased iron or ste median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 0.1 0.0 21 0 0
2019 3.0 1.8 13 0 0
2018 0.4 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · IL · Chicago

241 Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Superior Forge and Steel - Pittsburgh 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ellwood Crankshaft Group Sharon Forge 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vance Metal Products, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ellwood National Crankshaft 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ardagh Glass Inc Dolton 396 FTE
STATE-SIZE IL06 396 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1307 396 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midway IL FXFE-MDW 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR 564 - Irving-Int Branch 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas Branch 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Schenker Logisitics 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR EXPO 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wegmans Natick 132 396 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester Hills Data Center 396 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philadelphia D&M Inc. 396 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Texas Healthcare Laundry 396 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.