Sodium inorganic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing · Illinois

APL Engineered Materials, Inc.

Urbana, IL · ~30 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

APL Engineered Materials, Inc. runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sodium inorganic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
18
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares APL Engineered Materials, Inc.'s OSHA Total Case Rate of 8.8 to the Sodium inorganic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (268% of benchmark) across 9 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

APL Engineered Materials, Inc.'s yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

-10010203040 201620172018201920202021202220232024 32.83.3 Industry benchmarkAPL Engineered Materials, Inc. TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 325180.

Where APL Engineered Materials, Inc. falls in its industry

491 Sodium inorganic compounds, no establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 28 Sodium inorganic compounds, no employers in Illinois.

Trend analysis for APL Engineered Materials, Inc.

Between 2016 and 2024, APL Engineered Materials, Inc.'s Total Case Rate worsened from 4.0 to 32.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 731% increase across 8 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2024 saw the highest rate, at 32.8, a spread of 32.8 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 9 reporting years, APL Engineered Materials, Inc. recorded 18 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 9-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 18 injuries shown on this page for APL Engineered Materials, Inc. are sourced from its own 9 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 325180 - Sodium inorganic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

2 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 30,450 hours worked = 13.14 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
APL Engineered Materials, Inc. (this establishment) 8.84 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg
Alkalies manufacturing industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 325180
Illinois state avg (all industries) 4.73 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by APL Engineered Materials, Inc. to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 32.8 13.1 5 0 0
2023 17.6 13.2 4 0 0
2022 12.4 8.3 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.8 3.9 2 0 0
2018 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2017 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 4.0 0.0 2 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on APL Engineered Materials, Inc.'s reported OSHA injury record versus its Sodium inorganic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 268% of the Sodium inorganic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing benchmark, APL Engineered Materials, Inc. reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Sodium inorganic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is APL Engineered Materials, Inc.'s safety grade?
APL Engineered Materials, Inc. has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 8.8 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Sodium inorganic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing.
How many injuries has APL Engineered Materials, Inc. reported?
APL Engineered Materials, Inc. has reported 18 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 9 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.