Spices and spice mix manufacturing · Illinois

Apk Inc

Gurnee, IL · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apk Inc runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Spices and spice mix manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Apk Inc: 4.9 TCR = 120% of Spices and spice mix manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apk Inc safety composite

Apk Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Apk Inc: 3.7 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2018

Apk Inc's TCR rose 2.5 from 3.7 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Gurnee, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 120% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #12/16
  • PHOTO Sensient Flavors - A…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sensient Flavors - Amboy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apk Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apk Inc averages 4.9 TCR (120% of the Spices and spice mix manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Apk Inc TCR series: 2017=3.7 · 2018=6.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Apk Inc falls in its industry

200 Spices and spice mix manufactu establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #12 safest of 16 Spices and spice mix manufactu employers in Illinois.

Apk Inc (49 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Apk Inc
Apk Inc (49 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Apk Inc has fewer employees than the Spices and spice mix manufacturing 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
2018 6.2 6.2 3 0 0
2017 3.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · IL · Gurnee

200 Spices and spice mix manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 91 employers in Gurnee, 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 Sensient Flavors - Amboy 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR D.D. Williamson Colors 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry-Manitowoc 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boller Construction Co., Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Pipelining INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM. Aupperle & Sons, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE RI Glass Group 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARDx Gurnee J54 2,661 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Wolf Lodge Illinois 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukegan 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1668 339 FTE
NAT-TCR Antioch College 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MacMulkin Chevrolet inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Idaho Milk Products 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Vista - Resort 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Corporate 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Clermont 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE NRG Energy - Bowline Generating Station 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indian Lake Rehabilitation Center 49 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.