Salt (except table) manufacturing · Illinois

Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility

Chicago, IL · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Salt (except table) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility: 6.6 TCR = 199% of Salt (except table) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility safety composite

Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.8

2016→2017

Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility injury rate improved

Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility's TCR fell 5.8 from 9.5 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.5 · 2017=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 199% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #32/32
  • PHOTO Preferred Resin of G…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Preferred Resin of Genoa, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility averages 6.6 TCR (199% of the Salt (except table) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility TCR series: 2016=9.5 · 2017=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility falls in its industry

485 Salt (except table) manufactur establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #32 safest of 32 Salt (except table) manufactur employers in Illinois.

Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility (29 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility
Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility (29 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Compass Minerals America Chicago Facility has fewer employees than the Salt (except table) manufacturing 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
2017 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2016 9.5 9.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · IL · Chicago

485 Salt (except table) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Preferred Resin of Genoa, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AKDENIZ CHEMSON 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1 Spectacle Street 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Akron Dispersions, Inc. 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grant Park 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Streamline Precision Manufacturing, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Erie (Paeri) 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor & Sons Pipe and Steel 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Ohio 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0109 - Norfolk, Va 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0097 - Raleigh, Nc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0016 - Modesto, Ca 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-West Roofing Company 29 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.