Tube, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing · Illinois

1601 Wise Plastics Technologies

West Chicago, IL · ~149 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1601 Wise Plastics Technologies runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tube, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

1601 Wise Plastics Technologies: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Tube, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1601 Wise Plastics Technologies safety composite

1601 Wise Plastics Technologies scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.2

2016→2018

1601 Wise Plastics Technologies injury rate improved

1601 Wise Plastics Technologies's TCR fell 7.2 from 8.6 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.6 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326121 · West Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Jain Irrigation-Fresno
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jain Irrigation-Fresno (0.0 TCR gap)

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1601 Wise Plastics Technologies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1601 Wise Plastics Technologies averages 3.7 TCR (112% of the Tube, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

1601 Wise Plastics Technologies TCR series: 2016=8.6 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where 1601 Wise Plastics Technologies falls in its industry

202 Tube, nonrigid plastics, manuf establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Tube, nonrigid plastics, manuf employers in Illinois.

1601 Wise Plastics Technologies (149 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 1601 Wise Plastics Technologies
1601 Wise Plastics Technologies (149 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 3.7

1601 Wise Plastics Technologies has more employees than the Tube, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2018 1.4 1.0 3 0 0
2017 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2016 8.6 5.5 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326121 · IL · West Chicago

202 Tube, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West Chicago, 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 Jain Irrigation-Fresno 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elbridge Campus 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weather Shield Mfg Inc. ---Vinyl Plant 04 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATI South 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mount Prospect 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plocher Construction Company 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Broeren Russo Construction, Inc. 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Regional Office - Larson 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR BMH-Union CO 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR PAM Specialty Hospital of Texarkana North 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR United Roofing & Construction Services, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Hotel 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE GBMD 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtroom Television Network LLC - One Time Warner Center 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE A-Stamp Industries 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 7B 149 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: 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.