Harness parts, metal, manufacturing · Illinois

Thunderbird Metals

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~151 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thunderbird Metals runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Harness parts, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Thunderbird Metals: 1.6 TCR = 47% of Harness parts, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thunderbird Metals safety composite

Thunderbird Metals scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

Thunderbird Metals held a steady TCR band

Thunderbird Metals's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.7 in 2022 to 1.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.7 · 2023=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Elk Grove Village, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 47% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #5/58
  • PHOTO Industrial Stainless
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Industrial Stainless (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thunderbird Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thunderbird Metals averages 1.6 TCR (47% of the Harness parts, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Thunderbird Metals TCR series: 2022=1.7 · 2023=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Thunderbird Metals falls in its industry

827 Harness parts, metal, manufact establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 58 Harness parts, metal, manufact employers in Illinois.

Thunderbird Metals (151 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Thunderbird Metals
Thunderbird Metals (151 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Thunderbird Metals has more employees than the Harness parts, metal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2023 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2022 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · IL · Elk Grove Village

827 Harness parts, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, 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 Industrial Stainless 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empire Metal Works LLC 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Systems, LCC (Plant 1) 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gretna Machine Shop Inc. 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Electric Ops 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sound Seal DBA Catalyst Acoustics 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Levy Company 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE U.S. Waterproofing 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR creative werks, LLC 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL008 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR General Recycling of MS, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR UMF-Urgent Medical and Family Care 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 022 Monessen, PA (RDC) 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Market Basket #77 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wheel Pros 1501 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aloha Nursing Rehab Centre 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Tank, LLC 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dana Innovations dba Sonance 151 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: 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.