Manufacturer of after market auto products · Illinois

WAL

Downers Grove, IL · ~46 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WAL runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Manufacturer of after market auto products workplace, earning a grade B.

WAL: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Manufacturer of after market auto products BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WAL safety composite

WAL scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

WAL: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

WAL's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Downers Grove, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #50/175
  • PHOTO Knightsbridge Plastics
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Knightsbridge Plastics (0.0 TCR gap)

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WAL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WAL averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Manufacturer of after market auto products BLS benchmark).

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

WAL TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where WAL falls in its industry

2,838 Manufacturer of after market a establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 175 Manufacturer of after market a employers in Illinois.

WAL (46 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate WAL
WAL (46 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

WAL has fewer employees than the Manufacturer of after market auto produc median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2018 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · Downers Grove

2,838 Manufacturer of after market auto products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 139 employers in Downers Grove, 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 Knightsbridge Plastics 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crane Composites - Goshen Plant 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colorado 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solo Cup Company Urbana 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carlyle KFC (MPF1) 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2502-Ashton, IL 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE MID AMERICA ENERGY SERVICES, INC. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Department 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Medical Group 5,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Support Centers 2,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital 1,958 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADVOCATE CHILDRENS HOSPITALS 1,734 FTE
NAT-TCR James Hardie Building Products Inc. - Waxahachie 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR GF Properties Group, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SWM Intl. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Praxair Inc. Suffield, CT #873 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Diesel Cast Welding 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Culinary, Inc - Avon 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Paul Peterson Compnay 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Aboard America! Santa Fe 46 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, 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.