Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · Illinois

Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights

Chicago Heights, IL · ~91 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights: 1.2 TCR = 36% of Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights safety composite

Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights held a steady TCR band

Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.1 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.1 · 2023=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Chicago Heights, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 36% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #17/59
  • PHOTO Arkema-SCO
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arkema-SCO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights averages 1.2 TCR (36% of the Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights TCR series: 2022=1.1 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights falls in its industry

530 Architectural coatings (i.e., establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 59 Architectural coatings (i.e., employers in Illinois.

Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights (91 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights
Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights (91 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Behr Paint Compnay Chicago Heights has more employees than the Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) man median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · IL · Chicago Heights

530 Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, 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 Arkema-SCO 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ennis (North) 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prism Powder Coatings Ltd, USA 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt Clemens Axalta Coating Systems 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Havana Power Station 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynamic Utility Solutions 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Campus Communications Group 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE MS - East Peroria, IL - 1EPI2 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Piggly Wiggly #10 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR F&R Construction 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Minore's Meats, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ATL Construction Inc 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Electrotek Corporation 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fluid System Components Inc 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwestern Minnesota Juvenile Center 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Web Industries Hartford 91 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.