Hammers, handtools, manufacturing · Illinois

Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company

Bushnell, IL · ~220 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company runs at 256% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hammers, handtools, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company: 8.4 TCR = 256% of Hammers, handtools, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company safety composite

Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company: 8.7 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2022

Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company's TCR rose 3.8 from 8.7 in 2016 to 12.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332216 · Bushnell, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 256% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #15/17
  • PHOTO Sacred Heart Plant
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 115 inj
  • SIZE ~220 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sacred Heart Plant (0.2 TCR gap)

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Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company averages 8.4 TCR (256% of the Hammers, handtools, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company TCR series: 2016=8.7 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=12.9 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=12.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company falls in its industry

174 Hammers, handtools, manufactur establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 17 Hammers, handtools, manufactur employers in Illinois.

Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company (220 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company
Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company (220 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Company has more employees than the Hammers, handtools, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2022 12.5 7.0 21 2 0
2021 5.5 3.2 11 1 0
2020 7.5 3.1 15 2 0
2019 3.9 2.3 10 0 0
2018 12.9 7.7 22 3 0
2017 8.2 3.7 20 0 0
2016 8.7 3.2 16 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332216 · IL · Bushnell

174 Hammers, handtools, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 8 employers in Bushnell, 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 Sacred Heart Plant 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marbach America Inc 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Steel Rule 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Printron Steel Rule Die, Inc. 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brock Services Midwest Area 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Royal Box Cicero 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Labelmark Co Inc 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weber Packaging Solutions, Inc 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bushnell Illinois Tank Company 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest Control Products 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bushnell Protein Plant 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR CYE Bushnell 30 FTE
NAT-TCR 4795-Aa-Iad-Washington - Dulles-Iad-Trml 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR HG609 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 546151-Oly-Main Office Sta 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Shasta Estates 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tecton Products, LLC - Fargo 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE 056552-Riverside Po 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of Rocky Hill -Town Hall 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1244 - Hanford Ca Whse 220 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.