Toilet soaps manufacturing · Illinois

ABF Labs

Waukegan, IL · ~328 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABF Labs runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Toilet soaps manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

ABF Labs: 5.2 TCR = 158% of Toilet soaps manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Labs safety composite

ABF Labs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

ABF Labs: 0.6 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

ABF Labs's TCR rose 7.0 from 0.6 in 2017 to 7.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Waukegan, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 158% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #20/23
  • PHOTO Birko Corp
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~328 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Birko Corp (0.1 TCR gap)

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ABF Labs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Labs averages 5.2 TCR (158% of the Toilet soaps manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Labs TCR series: 2017=0.6 · 2021=7.5 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where ABF Labs falls in its industry

240 Toilet soaps manufacturing establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 23 Toilet soaps manufacturing employers in Illinois.

ABF Labs (328 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ABF Labs
ABF Labs (328 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

ABF Labs has more employees than the Toilet soaps manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 7.6 5.9 14 0 0
2021 7.5 5.7 20 0 0
2017 0.6 0.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · IL · Waukegan

240 Toilet soaps manufacturing 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 Birko Corp 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essential Wholesale & Labs 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GOODWIN CO. (West) 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tennesee - Royal Chemical 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE LSB - Halsted St 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 891 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3434 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE 20721 SCHAUMBURG 328 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 Transfer Flow Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Engineering Services Inc 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Allegheny Coatings - Boot Jack 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fm Acoustical Tile 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Home Health Care Inc 328 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Rehabilitation Institute of St Louis 328 FTE
NAT-SIZE I & MJ Gross Company 328 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Baldwin Park 328 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, 2021, 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.