Sewing and mending kits assembling · Illinois

Union Special LLC

Huntley, IL · ~102 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Union Special LLC runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sewing and mending kits assembling workplace, earning a grade C.

Union Special LLC: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Sewing and mending kits assembling BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Union Special LLC safety composite

Union Special LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Union Special LLC: 1.5 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2024

Union Special LLC's TCR rose 2.5 from 1.5 in 2019 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339999 · Huntley, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Meadowbrook Inventio…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meadowbrook Inventions Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Union Special LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Union Special LLC averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Sewing and mending kits assembling BLS benchmark).

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

Union Special LLC TCR series: 2019=1.5 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Union Special LLC falls in its industry

281 Sewing and mending kits assemb establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Sewing and mending kits assemb employers in Illinois.

Union Special LLC (102 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Union Special LLC
Union Special LLC (102 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Union Special LLC has more employees than the Sewing and mending kits assembling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 4.0 4.0 3 0 0
2023 2.7 2.7 3 0 0
2022 4.4 1.8 5 0 0
2021 3.4 3.4 4 0 0
2020 2.6 2.6 3 0 0
2019 1.5 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339999 · IL · Huntley

281 Sewing and mending kits assembling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 43 employers in Huntley, 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 Meadowbrook Inventions Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Candles Co Inc 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.A. Feather Co., Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smartplay International Inc 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Champaign 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE FCL Builders, LLC 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gateway Construction - Chicago 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE AA Service 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centegra Health System 1,289 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4641 403 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4641 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - RFD4 265 FTE
NAT-TCR Nexion Health, Inc 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Facilities Fleet Management 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dold Foods 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Owensboro Municipal Utilities 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heglar Creek Dairy 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eden Hospice 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Driftwood Healthcare Center 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bristol Farms - 003 - BF Manhattan Beach 102 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. 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.