Painting and wallpapering · Illinois

Calumet Decorating Service, Inc.

Palos Heights, IL · ~17 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Calumet Decorating Service, Inc. runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade B.

Calumet Decorating Service, Inc.: 1.8 TCR = 64% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Calumet Decorating Service, Inc. safety composite

Calumet Decorating Service, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Calumet Decorating Service, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Calumet Decorating Service, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=8.7 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Palos Heights, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 64% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/17
  • PHOTO Color Dynamics, Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Color Dynamics, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Calumet Decorating Service, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Calumet Decorating Service, Inc. averages 1.8 TCR (64% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).

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

Calumet Decorating Service, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.7 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Calumet Decorating Service, Inc. falls in its industry

582 Painting and wallpapering establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 17 Painting and wallpapering employers in Illinois.

Calumet Decorating Service, Inc. (17 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Calumet Decorating Service, Inc.
Calumet Decorating Service, Inc. (17 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Calumet Decorating Service, Inc. has fewer employees than the Painting and wallpapering median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 8.7 8.7 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · IL · Palos Heights

582 Painting and wallpapering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 22 employers in Palos Heights, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Color Dynamics, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Techno Coatings Inc 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corey Robbins Painting Company 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4829-12118 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Neoga 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plymouth 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility - NWRWRF - Village of Fox Lake 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airoom Architect Holdings, LLC 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palos Community Hospital 2,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Providence Life Services 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manor Care Health Services - Palos Heights East 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parks and Recreation 258 FTE
NAT-TCR Public Library 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Michigan Caterpillar Lansing 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Michigan Caterpillar Metro South 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Processing, LLC 1.8 TCR

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, 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.