Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · Illinois

Alsip Novolex Plant

Alsip, IL · ~119 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alsip Novolex Plant runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Alsip Novolex Plant: 3.5 TCR = 106% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alsip Novolex Plant safety composite

Alsip Novolex Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−0.7

2021→2024

Alsip Novolex Plant injury rate improved

Alsip Novolex Plant's TCR fell 0.7 from 3.4 in 2021 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.4 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Alsip, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 106% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #20/32
  • PHOTO Chicago GPP Novolex …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chicago GPP Novolex Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alsip Novolex Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alsip Novolex Plant averages 3.5 TCR (106% of the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Alsip Novolex Plant TCR series: 2021=3.4 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Alsip Novolex Plant falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 32 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in Illinois.

Alsip Novolex Plant (119 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Alsip Novolex Plant
Alsip Novolex Plant (119 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Alsip Novolex Plant has more employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 2.7 1.8 3 0 0
2023 3.5 3.5 5 0 0
2022 4.5 2.3 6 0 0
2021 3.4 2.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · IL · Alsip

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 117 employers in Alsip, 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 Chicago GPP Novolex Plant 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arkwright Advanced Coating, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 975 Lutter Drive 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duro Bag-Brownsville 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 119 - Archer Western de Moya JV III 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1001 - Romeoville, IL 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Sycamore 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Upland Concrete 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Menasha Packaging Company - Alsip 783 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1005 - Alsip 594 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alsip 388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Griffith Foods - Alsip 380 FTE
NAT-TCR Interstate Drywall Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1708 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Faithway Alliance - Guntersville, AL 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 3335 - San Marcos Downtown 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Al Dahra ACX, Inc. 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodland Terrace of Carmel 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acuity Hospital of New Jersey, L.L.C. (d/b/a Select Specialty Hospital - Atlantic City) 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barnes, Inc. 119 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.