Coating metals and metal products for the trade · Illinois

vEC - St. Charles

St. Charles, IL · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

vEC - St. Charles runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade B.

vEC - St. Charles: 1.7 TCR = 50% of Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

vEC - St. Charles safety composite

vEC - St. Charles scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

vEC - St. Charles: 0.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

vEC - St. Charles's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.0 in 2022 to 3.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · St. Charles, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 50% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #7/41
  • PHOTO PRO-TEC Coating Comp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PRO-TEC Coating Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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vEC - St. Charles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows vEC - St. Charles averages 1.7 TCR (50% of the Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

vEC - St. Charles TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where vEC - St. Charles falls in its industry

646 Coating metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 41 Coating metals and metal produ employers in Illinois.

vEC - St. Charles (30 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate vEC - St. Charles
vEC - St. Charles (30 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

vEC - St. Charles has fewer employees than the Coating metals and metal products for th median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · IL · St. Charles

646 Coating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in St. Charles, 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 PRO-TEC Coating Company 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plasma Processes 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coatings Plus, Inc. 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Odell Fire 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago Loop Tech 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rukel Management, LLC. 607 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omron Automotive Electronics, Inc. (OEDC) 572 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility of America Corporation 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility America Corporation 439 FTE
NAT-TCR Stampin' Up! Riverton 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mondi Tekkote 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR L.D. Docsa Assoc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #1270 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE USA Gymnastics & Supply, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primary Branch 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Urbana - Aura Cacia 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Fountains of Lodi 30 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.