Precision turned product manufacturing · Illinois

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham

Effingham, IL · ~215 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham runs at 291% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Precision turned product manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham: 9.6 TCR = 291% of Precision turned product manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham safety composite

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham: 11.0 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2021

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham's TCR rose 0.8 from 11.0 in 2016 to 11.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332721 · Effingham, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 291% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #40/44
  • PHOTO Brynolf Manufacturin…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 118 inj
  • SIZE ~215 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brynolf Manufacturing, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham averages 9.6 TCR (291% of the Precision turned product manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham TCR series: 2016=11 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=15.4 · 2021=11.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham falls in its industry

464 Precision turned product manuf establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 44 Precision turned product manuf employers in Illinois.

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham (215 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham
Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham (215 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Waupaca Foundry, Inc. Plant 7E Effingham has more employees than the Precision turned product manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 11.8 3.2 24 9 0
2020 15.4 7.2 38 3 0
2019 6.4 2.6 11 4 0
2018 7.5 3.6 17 2 0
2017 5.4 0.5 11 1 0
2016 11.0 6.7 17 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332721 · IL · Effingham

464 Precision turned product manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 104 employers in Effingham, 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 Brynolf Manufacturing, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alco Main 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PRECI MANUFACTURING INC 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steelhead Composites Headquarters 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Swiss Automation, Inc. - Barrington 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE School Health Corporation 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE HODGKINS IL - 3206 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAI-0032-0032-03084 FAC-03084-SHOREWOOD-IL 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Anthony's Hospital, Effingham 762 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital 582 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAE-EFFINGHAM-3 HSHS ST ANTHONY S MEMORIAL HOSP 509 FTE
CITY-NEAR Patterson Technolgy Center 456 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Chino 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 037/Phoenix 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CRI - Dayton Area 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Symbii Salt Lake 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE NRG- First AID 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE BBVA- First AID 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2573-AZ078 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valparaiso Ofc/Whse 215 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.