Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing · Illinois

Dobson Ave

Chicago, IL · ~22 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dobson Ave runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dobson Ave: 6.9 TCR = 210% of Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dobson Ave safety composite

Dobson Ave scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dobson Ave: 4.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 18.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Dobson Ave's TCR rose 0.6 from 4.0 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 18.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 210% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #150/175
  • PHOTO Molding Solutions, I…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Molding Solutions, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dobson Ave in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dobson Ave averages 6.9 TCR (210% of the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dobson Ave TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=8 · 2019=18.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Dobson Ave falls in its industry

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #150 safest of 175 Bottle caps and lids, plastics employers in Illinois.

Dobson Ave (22 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dobson Ave
Dobson Ave (22 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Dobson Ave has fewer employees than the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 18.2 9.1 4 0 0
2018 8.0 0.0 2 0 0
2017 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · Chicago

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics, 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 Molding Solutions, Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rockingham, NC 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Novatech USA 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GrassWorx Plant 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tolono Main 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anna Evergreen, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunset 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedarcrest, LLC. 22 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 Edencrest Green Meadows 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vivid Glass 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Empire Level 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Orscheln Farm and Home LLC 006 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE NORtech Energy Solutions, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Vergne Sat Tn 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scoular Mentor 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Plastics & Composites Ledbetter 22 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.