Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Vulcanium Metals

Northbrook, IL · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vulcanium Metals runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Vulcanium Metals: 1.7 TCR = 76% of Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vulcanium Metals safety composite

Vulcanium Metals scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2016→2020

Vulcanium Metals injury rate improved

Vulcanium Metals's TCR fell 1.4 from 4.0 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Northbrook, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 76% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #13/107
  • PHOTO Sabel Steel-New Steel
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sabel Steel-New Steel (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vulcanium Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vulcanium Metals averages 1.7 TCR (76% of the Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Vulcanium Metals TCR series: 2016=4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Vulcanium Metals falls in its industry

1,299 Metal products (e.g., bars, in establishments

Safer than 82% 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 #13 safest of 107 Metal products (e.g., bars, in employers in Illinois.

Vulcanium Metals (26 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Vulcanium Metals
Vulcanium Metals (26 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Vulcanium Metals has fewer employees than the Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plat 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
2020 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · Northbrook

1,299 Metal products (e.g., bars, ingots, plates, rods, shapes, sheets) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 122 employers in Northbrook, 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 Sabel Steel-New Steel 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tube Service 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Earle M. Jorgensen Company Wrightsville 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Steel & Wire 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rock River - Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill 'N Dale Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Generation 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas Pharma US 1,228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas Pharma Global Development 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas US LLC 896 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILNOR - NORTHBROOK 780 FTE
NAT-TCR Geiger - Fulton 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Zone3 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sc Imd 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ESG Operations 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hft #1 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE IFS Coatings, Inc. (Oklahoma) 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint Paul Police Downtown Beat 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coarc - Cardinal Hall 26 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: 2020, 2019, 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.