Cabinets (i.e., housings), wood (e.g., sewing machines, stereo, television), manufacturing · Illinois

W. Chicago

West Chicago, IL · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W. Chicago runs at 720% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cabinets (i.e., housings), wood (e.g., sewing machines, stereo, television), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

W. Chicago: 23.8 TCR = 720% of Cabinets (i.e., housings), wood (e.g., sewing machines, stereo, television), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W. Chicago safety composite

W. Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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 23.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 29.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

W. Chicago: 7.7 → 29.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 34.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2020

W. Chicago's TCR rose 21.4 from 7.7 in 2018 to 29.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 34.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · West Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.8 · 720% of ind

  • DART 29.1 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Faulkner Fabricators…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Faulkner Fabricators Inc (0.7 TCR gap)

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W. Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W. Chicago averages 23.8 TCR (720% of the Cabinets (i.e., housings), wood (e.g., sewing machines, stereo, television), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

W. Chicago TCR series: 2018=7.7 · 2019=34.5 · 2020=29.1 · BLS 3.3

Where W. Chicago falls in its industry

405 Cabinets (i.e., housings), woo establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

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 Cabinets (i.e., housings), woo employers in Illinois.

W. Chicago (29 employees, TCR 23.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate W. Chicago
W. Chicago (29 employees, TCR 23.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

W. Chicago has fewer employees than the Cabinets (i.e., housings), wood (e.g., s median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 29.1 29.1 5 0 0
2019 34.5 23.0 9 0 0
2018 7.7 7.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · IL · West Chicago

405 Cabinets (i.e., housings), wood (e.g., sewing machines, stereo, television), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West Chicago, 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 Faulkner Fabricators Inc 24.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meeco Sullivan - Warwick 24.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wells Wood Turning & Finishing 21.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Puerta 21.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grant Park 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Badger Iron Works, Inc. 23.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Metlakatla 23.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Minnesota TNH Protege dba Weed Man Lawn Care 23.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Amigos Meat Distributors West 23.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5091 - Fox Run Estates 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colfax and Washington CW 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roses 1848 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roses 532 29 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.