Lip balms manufacturing · Illinois

Blistex

Oak Brook, IL · ~410 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blistex runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lip balms manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Blistex: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Lip balms manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blistex safety composite

Blistex scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−1.1

2016→2024

Blistex injury rate improved

Blistex's TCR fell 1.1 from 2.3 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2018=1.0 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325412 · Oak Brook, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #17/31
  • PHOTO Partner Therapeutics…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~410 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Partner Therapeutics-Northpointe (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blistex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blistex averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Lip balms manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Blistex TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2018=1 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Blistex falls in its industry

855 Lip balms manufacturing establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

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 31 Lip balms manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Blistex (410 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 Blistex
Blistex (410 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Blistex has more employees than the Lip balms manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 1.2 0.4 3 0 0
2023 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2022 1.4 1.2 6 0 0
2021 1.6 0.6 5 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.5 1.6 11 0 0
2018 1.0 0.8 4 0 0
2016 2.3 2.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325412 · IL · Oak Brook

855 Lip balms manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 71 employers in Oak Brook, 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 Partner Therapeutics-Northpointe 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mikart LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alva-Amco Niles 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guerbet 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Chicago - Department of Water Management -1000 E Ohio St 410 FTE
STATE-SIZE 91 - Archer Western Contractors, LLC 410 FTE
STATE-SIZE COMPASS HEALTH CENTER OAKBROOK PLLC 410 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Lambs Farm 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Health Care - Shared Revenue Cycle Organization 1,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Hardware Corporate Offices 1,017 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10845 955 FTE
NAT-TCR Western Concrete Pumping, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR First Student San Rafael 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SAI Cincinnati 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Level 10 Construction 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE D'Ambra Construction Corporate Office 410 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hmh - Jfk 410 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1352 - Chaska 410 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2475 - Bronx Terminal 410 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.