Concrete additive preparations (e.g., curing, hardening) manufacturing · Illinois

Butterfield Color

Aurora, IL · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butterfield Color runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Concrete additive preparations (e.g., curing, hardening) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Butterfield Color: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Concrete additive preparations (e.g., curing, hardening) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butterfield Color safety composite

Butterfield Color scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

Butterfield Color held a steady TCR band

Butterfield Color's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.7 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Aurora, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #18/32
  • PHOTO Cargill Salt - Timpie
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Salt - Timpie (0.0 TCR gap)

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Butterfield Color in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butterfield Color averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Concrete additive preparations (e.g., curing, hardening) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Butterfield Color TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Butterfield Color falls in its industry

485 Concrete additive preparations establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #18 safest of 32 Concrete additive preparations employers in Illinois.

Butterfield Color (37 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Butterfield Color
Butterfield Color (37 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Butterfield Color has fewer employees than the Concrete additive preparations (e.g., cu median and a higher 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
2018 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2017 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2016 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · IL · Aurora

485 Concrete additive preparations (e.g., curing, hardening) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 325 employers in Aurora, 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 Cargill Salt - Timpie 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PTLP Cranberry 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Livonia Facility 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magnaflux 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curtis Orchard Ltd 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscola 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Seed Farms, Inc. - Ursa 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Fleet Facility 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indian Prairie School District 204 3,309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Factor Aurora 2,167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rush Copley Medical Center, Inc. 2,163 FTE
CITY-NEAR ANDY FRAIN SERVICES INC 2,100 FTE
NAT-TCR AmeriGas - Swanton, OH 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0214 - Clarksville, Tn 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0244 - Newport News, Va 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR G & W Equipment - Raleigh 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cruikshank Farms LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exit 34A LLC dba Clarion Inn Gulfport 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kane Warehousing, Inc. DC#3 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Mechanicville 37 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, 2016. 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.