Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing · Illinois

600 Nemera

Buffalo Grove, IL · ~367 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

600 Nemera runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

600 Nemera: 1.3 TCR = 41% of Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

600 Nemera safety composite

600 Nemera scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−1.0

2016→2021

600 Nemera injury rate improved

600 Nemera's TCR fell 1.0 from 1.8 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.8 · 2017=1.8 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Buffalo Grove, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #29/175
  • PHOTO IPL Encore Industrie…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~367 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IPL Encore Industries Inc Forsyth (0.0 TCR gap)

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600 Nemera in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 600 Nemera averages 1.3 TCR (41% of the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

600 Nemera TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=1.8 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where 600 Nemera falls in its industry

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics establishments

Safer than 87% 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 #29 safest of 175 Bottle caps and lids, plastics employers in Illinois.

600 Nemera (367 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 600 Nemera
600 Nemera (367 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

600 Nemera has more employees than the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufact median and a lower 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
2021 0.7 0.7 4 0 0
2020 1.1 1.1 7 0 0
2019 1.3 1.1 7 0 0
2017 1.8 1.8 4 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · Buffalo Grove

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Buffalo Grove, 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 IPL Encore Industries Inc Forsyth 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inteplast Group 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Gobain 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADVANCED WINDOW CORP. 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ferrara 367 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUPERVALU DISTRIBUTION CENTER - CHAMPAIGN URBANA 36111 367 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3400 367 FTE
STATE-SIZE 603 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Building Services, Inc. 2,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex - Buffalo Grove 1,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR BT Buffalo Grove 760 FTE
NAT-TCR Humboldt County Memorial Hospital 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Central 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Unk Market @ 27th 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Marina Heights MBB 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Caris Cotton Center 16 367 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6795-86140B0199 367 FTE
NAT-SIZE WNA Chattanooga 367 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vernon Memorial Hospital 367 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, 2017, 2016. 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.