Nails, brads, and staples made from purchased wire · Illinois

Vertex Fasteners

Des Plaines, IL · ~44 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vertex Fasteners runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nails, brads, and staples made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade A.

Vertex Fasteners: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Nails, brads, and staples made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vertex Fasteners safety composite

Vertex Fasteners scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Vertex Fasteners held a steady TCR band

Vertex Fasteners's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Des Plaines, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/19
  • PHOTO Mazzella Lifting Tec…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mazzella Lifting Technologies Denver Wire Rope (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vertex Fasteners in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vertex Fasteners averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Nails, brads, and staples made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Vertex Fasteners TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Vertex Fasteners falls in its industry

270 Nails, brads, and staples made establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 19 Nails, brads, and staples made employers in Illinois.

Vertex Fasteners (44 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Vertex Fasteners
Vertex Fasteners (44 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Vertex Fasteners has fewer employees than the Nails, brads, and staples made from purc median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.4 0.0 2 0 0
2020 6.2 3.1 2 0 0
2019 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · IL · Des Plaines

270 Nails, brads, and staples made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 174 employers in Des Plaines, 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 Mazzella Lifting Technologies Denver Wire Rope 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tinley 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stephens Pipe & Steel LLC BERNARD 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trinity Sling Authority 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2570-Thomasboro, IL (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative Paxton Headquarters 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Illini Elec. Coop. Paxton Heaquarters 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR E Light Electric Services, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mem Ltl 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Midland Texas 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterford Power, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 189 Hampton 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE 129 Santa Ana 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bibb Mill Event Center 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boneso Brothers Construction Inc 44 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.