Truss Manufacturing · Illinois

U.S. Truss Company - Cortland

Cortland, IL · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

U.S. Truss Company - Cortland runs at 299% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truss Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

U.S. Truss Company - Cortland: 9.9 TCR = 299% of Truss Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

U.S. Truss Company - Cortland safety composite

U.S. Truss Company - Cortland scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2023→2024

U.S. Truss Company - Cortland injury rate improved

U.S. Truss Company - Cortland's TCR fell 4.8 from 12.3 in 2023 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=12.3 · 2024=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · Cortland, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 299% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Truss Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Truss Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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U.S. Truss Company - Cortland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows U.S. Truss Company - Cortland averages 9.9 TCR (299% of the Truss Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

U.S. Truss Company - Cortland TCR series: 2023=12.3 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where U.S. Truss Company - Cortland falls in its industry

421 Truss Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Truss Manufacturing employers in Illinois.

U.S. Truss Company - Cortland (34 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate U.S. Truss Company - Cortland
U.S. Truss Company - Cortland (34 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

U.S. Truss Company - Cortland has fewer employees than the Truss Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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
2024 7.4 3.7 2 0 0
2023 12.3 12.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · IL · Cortland

421 Truss Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 7 employers in Cortland, 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 Truss Plant 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CARTER COMPONENT PLANT 541 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SE - TELFORD TRUSS 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Granville Lumber Rival Build LLC 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cresco Labs - Kankakee 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kendall Energy Facility 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Adams Electric 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Town of Normal - Water 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Office 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR NPL Great Lakes LLC - Illinois 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baeza Rapid Delivery Service LLC 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dekalb County Recycling Systems 37 FTE
NAT-TCR Medical Examiner 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Police Department 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Somerset Welding and Steel Company, Inc. - Trailer Plant 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Franz Bakery Springfield Division - Medford Depot and Outlet 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blue Ridge Aquaculture 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Classic Recreation Systems 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dayton Branch 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hodge Tool 34 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. 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.