Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Illinois

Deines-Nitz Solutions

Erie, IL · ~42 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Deines-Nitz Solutions runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Deines-Nitz Solutions: 4.8 TCR = 145% of Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Deines-Nitz Solutions safety composite

Deines-Nitz Solutions scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

Deines-Nitz Solutions held a steady TCR band

Deines-Nitz Solutions's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2019=2.4 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=12.5 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · Erie, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/15
  • PHOTO Mauser USA
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mauser USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Deines-Nitz Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Deines-Nitz Solutions averages 4.8 TCR (145% of the Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Deines-Nitz Solutions TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=2.4 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=12.5 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Deines-Nitz Solutions falls in its industry

175 Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 15 Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, employers in Illinois.

Deines-Nitz Solutions (42 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Deines-Nitz Solutions
Deines-Nitz Solutions (42 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Deines-Nitz Solutions has fewer employees than the Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 4.4 4.4 2 0 0
2022 12.5 7.5 3 2 0
2021 9.4 7.0 4 0 0
2019 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · IL · Erie

175 Shipping barrels, drums, kegs, and pails, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 4 employers in Erie, 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 Mauser USA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albea Americas 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jamestown Advanced Products Corp. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roura Michigan Facility 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Pontiac, IL 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterman, IL-R&D 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield IL 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Egyptian Electric Cooperative 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Erie Fire Department 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Erie Ambulance Service 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Erie Foods International North plant 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Goodwill Industries of Orange County Brea 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ceramic Industrial Coatings 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Max's 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Northfield Store 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hard Rock Concrete Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Meadow Nursery 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Kern Water District 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Appleton 131 42 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2017. 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.