Pipe fabricating (i.e., bending, cutting, threading) made from purchased metal pipe · Illinois

Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream

Carol Stream, IL · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pipe fabricating (i.e., bending, cutting, threading) made from purchased metal pipe workplace, earning a grade C.

Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream: 4.0 TCR = 120% of Pipe fabricating (i.e., bending, cutting, threading) made from purchased metal pipe BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream safety composite

Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream: 2.7 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.32× in 2021

Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream's TCR rose 6.5 from 2.7 in 2019 to 9.2 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332996 · Carol Stream, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 120% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #4/11
  • PHOTO Viking Fabrication -…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Viking Fabrication - Columbus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream averages 4.0 TCR (120% of the Pipe fabricating (i.e., bending, cutting, threading) made from purchased metal pipe BLS benchmark).

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

Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream TCR series: 2019=2.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream falls in its industry

337 Pipe fabricating (i.e., bendin establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 11 Pipe fabricating (i.e., bendin employers in Illinois.

Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream (35 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream
Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream (35 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Viking Fabrication - Carol Stream has fewer employees than the Pipe fabricating (i.e., bending, cutting median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2021 9.2 9.2 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332996 · IL · Carol Stream

337 Pipe fabricating (i.e., bending, cutting, threading) made from purchased metal pipe employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 170 employers in Carol Stream, 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 Viking Fabrication - Columbus 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Statesville 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beck Manufacturing - Greencastle Plant 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodsage LLC 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dynegy Kendall Energy LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.J.M. Electric Cooperative, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Beloit Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPage Water Commission 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group 2,151 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Litho, Inc. 1,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161275-CAROL STREAM IL P&DC 960 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods - Carol Stream 853 FTE
NAT-TCR Viking Fabrication - Columbus 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gibson Corrugated 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Codes Administration 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennyrile Home Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greco and Sons of Colorado 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pal-Serv OKC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bluebird Estates 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florez Paving 35 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.