Industrial Valve Manufacturing · Illinois

Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp.

Elmhurst, IL · ~171 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp. runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial Valve Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp.: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Industrial Valve Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp. safety composite

Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−2.6

2017→2018

Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp. injury rate improved

Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp.'s TCR fell 2.6 from 5.3 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.3 · 2018=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332911 · Elmhurst, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #11/13
  • PHOTO Kerotest Manufacturi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kerotest Manufacturing Corp. Mansura, LA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp. averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Industrial Valve Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp. TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp. falls in its industry

298 Industrial Valve Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 13 Industrial Valve Manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp. (171 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp.
Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp. (171 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Val-Matic Valve & Mfg. Corp. has more employees than the Industrial Valve Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2018 2.8 2.8 5 0 0
2017 5.3 2.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332911 · IL · Elmhurst

298 Industrial Valve Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 127 employers in Elmhurst, 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 Kerotest Manufacturing Corp. Mansura, LA 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3010_5848 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cashco Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ultraflo Corporation 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jacksonville Factory 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin Park - Global Plastics - Therm - D041 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Slidematic Precision Components 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elmhurst 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elmhurst Memorial Hospital 2,864 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Services Inc. 2,331 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elmhurst , IL - 01 1,612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elmhurst Community Unit School 205 1,252 FTE
NAT-TCR Schofield Home Health Care 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wenco Construction Company, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BK-Mililani #607 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 40-Baltimore Terminal 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holiday Care Center, Inc. 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cincinnati Container 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1328 - Rego Park 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weck's 4th Street 171 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.