Machine shops · Illinois

West End Tool & Die

Joliet, IL · ~62 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West End Tool & Die runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

West End Tool & Die: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West End Tool & Die safety composite

West End Tool & Die scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

West End Tool & Die: 3.2 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

West End Tool & Die's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.2 in 2021 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Joliet, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #84/103
  • PHOTO Visioneering, Inc - …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Visioneering, Inc - Fraser - Masonic (0.0 TCR gap)

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West End Tool & Die in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West End Tool & Die averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

West End Tool & Die TCR series: 2021=3.2 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where West End Tool & Die falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #84 safest of 103 Machine shops employers in Illinois.

West End Tool & Die (62 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate West End Tool & Die
West End Tool & Die (62 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

West End Tool & Die has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher 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
2024 4.1 4.1 4 0 0
2023 7.1 7.1 7 0 0
2022 9.8 4.9 6 0 0
2021 3.2 3.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IL · Joliet

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 281 employers in Joliet, 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 Visioneering, Inc - Fraser - Masonic 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Napoleon Machine 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kalco Machine & Mfg. Co. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wright Industries Inc., (Spence Lane) 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dupont Pioneer Mcleansboro MCL1 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hinsdale Nurseries, Inc. - Plano 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE 03U - Electric Field Meter Services 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Tech Services 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR County Of Will 2,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MDW2 2,361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MDW2 2,101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Joliet 2,089 FTE
NAT-TCR Reclamation District No. 108 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Harriet Lower 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 101 - GB Chico 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Komatsu America Corp. Hatfield, PA 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE RHDD - Muskingum 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crippen Auto Mall Inc. 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSRC Services LLC 62 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. 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.