Painting and wallpapering · Illinois

Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc.

Chicago, IL · ~71 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc. runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade B.

Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc.: 1.5 TCR = 55% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc. safety composite

Continental Painting and Decorating, 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/17
  • PHOTO Van Hawk, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Van Hawk, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc. averages 1.5 TCR (55% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).

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

Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc. falls in its industry

582 Painting and wallpapering establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #6 safest of 17 Painting and wallpapering employers in Illinois.

Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc. (71 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc.
Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc. (71 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Continental Painting and Decorating, Inc. has more 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.6 4.6 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · IL · Chicago

582 Painting and wallpapering 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 Van Hawk, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Archive Finishing LLC 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DiVinci Painters 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tank Services 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dwight, IL 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6697_16861 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menold Construction, Inc 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Contegra Enterprises 71 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 Caterpillar Corinth MS VSI 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Paradigm Precision - Malden Operations 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Derrick Corporation - Buffalo 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TQM Roofing, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE SLC Presidential Place 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Starmount Health and Rehabilitation Center 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-48180055-6290 Shelby View Dr.-Wc 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 71 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.