Drilling mud compounds, conditioners, and additives (except bentonites) manufacturing · Illinois

CSS Rochelle IL

Rochelle, IL · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CSS Rochelle IL runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drilling mud compounds, conditioners, and additives (except bentonites) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

CSS Rochelle IL: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Drilling mud compounds, conditioners, and additives (except bentonites) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CSS Rochelle IL safety composite

CSS Rochelle IL scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−3.1

2016→2017

CSS Rochelle IL injury rate improved

CSS Rochelle IL's TCR fell 3.1 from 5.8 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.8 · 2017=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #27/32
  • PHOTO Michelman - Shell Rd…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Michelman - Shell Rd Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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CSS Rochelle IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CSS Rochelle IL averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Drilling mud compounds, conditioners, and additives (except bentonites) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

CSS Rochelle IL TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where CSS Rochelle IL falls in its industry

485 Drilling mud compounds, condit establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #27 safest of 32 Drilling mud compounds, condit employers in Illinois.

CSS Rochelle IL (33 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 CSS Rochelle IL
CSS Rochelle IL (33 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

CSS Rochelle IL has fewer employees than the Drilling mud compounds, conditioners, an 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 2.7 0.0 0 1 0
2016 5.8 5.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · IL · Rochelle

485 Drilling mud compounds, conditioners, and additives (except bentonites) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 45 employers in Rochelle, 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 Michelman - Shell Rd Plant 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AquaPhoenix Scientific -HQ 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR QualiChem Plant 1 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BHS Specialty Chemical Products - Nampa 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Dwight 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Konos 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Farm Shop 208 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Will County Generating Station 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochelle Foods 823 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochelle Community Hospital 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochelle Distribution Center 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC 252 FTE
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Harborview 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Caliber, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Mira Loma-Building 1 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR NAPP Cambridge 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE HMA Contracting Corp. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peterson Home Health Care Services 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE GCT - Plainfield 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE GCT - Dayton 33 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.