Control valves, fluid power, manufacturing · Illinois

VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich

Lake Zurich, IL · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich runs at 312% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Control valves, fluid power, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich: 10.3 TCR = 312% of Control valves, fluid power, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich safety composite

VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 20.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich: 0.0 → 20.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 20.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich's TCR rose 20.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 20.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332912 · Lake Zurich, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 312% of ind

  • DART 20.6 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Olivet - Plant 1
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Olivet - Plant 1 (0.2 TCR gap)

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VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich averages 10.3 TCR (312% of the Control valves, fluid power, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=20.6 · BLS 3.3

Where VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich falls in its industry

182 Control valves, fluid power, m establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

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 11 Control valves, fluid power, m employers in Illinois.

VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich (23 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich
VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich (23 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.1

VRG Controls LLC- Lake Zurich has fewer employees than the Control valves, fluid power, manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 20.6 20.6 5 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332912 · IL · Lake Zurich

182 Control valves, fluid power, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 84 employers in Lake Zurich, 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 Olivet - Plant 1 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PITTSBURGH 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR HS Automotive United States 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hamilton 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR B and B Maintenance, Inc. 1,077 FTE
CITY-NEAR ECHO Incorporated 945 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC 915 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresenius Kabi USA Lake Zurich Office 853 FTE
NAT-TCR Midwest Acoustics, Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Parke View Rehabilitation and Care Center 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR N and R of Nixa LLC 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Terminix Service, Inc. Hartsville 66- 15 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Littles of Downingtown 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE IHS 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Scientific Inc 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allegany NY Depot 23 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, 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.