Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Weldstar - Aurora

Aurora, IL · ~36 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Weldstar - Aurora runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Weldstar - Aurora: 1.9 TCR = 85% of Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Weldstar - Aurora safety composite

Weldstar - Aurora scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−5.7

2018→2024

Weldstar - Aurora injury rate improved

Weldstar - Aurora's TCR fell 5.7 from 5.7 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.7 · 2019=2.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Aurora, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 85% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/38
  • PHOTO Lake City
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lake City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Weldstar - Aurora in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Weldstar - Aurora averages 1.9 TCR (85% of the Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Weldstar - Aurora TCR series: 2018=5.7 · 2019=2.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Weldstar - Aurora falls in its industry

911 Welding machinery and equipmen establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 38 Welding machinery and equipmen employers in Illinois.

Weldstar - Aurora (36 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Weldstar - Aurora
Weldstar - Aurora (36 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Weldstar - Aurora has fewer employees than the Welding machinery and equipment merchant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2018 5.7 2.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · IL · Aurora

911 Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 325 employers in Aurora, 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 Lake City 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hupp ToyotaLift Cedar Rapids 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oregon 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arol North America, Inc. 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHI Greenhouse LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE MT ERIE COMPLEX -EST 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Malta 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indian Prairie School District 204 3,309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Factor Aurora 2,167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rush Copley Medical Center, Inc. 2,163 FTE
CITY-NEAR ANDY FRAIN SERVICES INC 2,100 FTE
NAT-TCR Larsen's Landscaping, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR McKeesport 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 05 Richmond 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dothan 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jordan Contracting, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altoona 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE X-F Construction Services, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sharico 36 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.