Machine shops · Illinois

Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL

Waukegan, IL · ~37 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL: 6.8 TCR = 205% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL safety composite

Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL: 4.4 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.58× in 2024

Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL's TCR rose 6.3 from 4.4 in 2017 to 10.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 205% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #89/103
  • PHOTO HFP Sebring
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HFP Sebring (0.0 TCR gap)

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Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL averages 6.8 TCR (205% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2018=8.9 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=8 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=10.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #89 safest of 103 Machine shops employers in Illinois.

Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL (37 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL
Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL (37 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Z&L Machining, Inc. - IL has fewer 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 10.7 10.7 3 0 0
2023 6.4 6.4 2 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2021 8.0 5.3 3 0 0
2020 6.2 6.2 2 0 0
2018 8.9 5.3 5 0 0
2017 4.4 4.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IL · Waukegan

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 141 employers in Waukegan, 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 HFP Sebring 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR R&R Tool, Inc. Winchester 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cutting Edge Machine and Tool 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tulsa Centerless Bar Processing, Inc. 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curtis Orchard Ltd 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscola 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Seed Farms, Inc. - Ursa 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Fleet Facility 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukegan PSD #60 2,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista Medical Center 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visual Pak Waukegan 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Blending & Filling 793 FTE
NAT-TCR Town of Culpeper, Public Works 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Massey Services Inc #3 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden Plaza of Valley View 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR C074 Willoughby 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tropar 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headrick Logging 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Storeroom Operations Center (Columbia) 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rex Heat Treat - Bedford Inc 37 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, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.