Food containers, polystyrene foam, manufacturing · Illinois

Employ Source Staffing Solutions

Name: Employ Source Staffing Solutions Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Dekalb, IL · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 15.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Employ Source Staffing Solutions runs at 475% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food containers, polystyrene foam, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Employ Source Staffing Solutions: 15.7 TCR = 475% of Food containers, polystyrene foam, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Employ Source Staffing Solutions safety composite

Employ Source Staffing Solutions scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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).

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 15.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Employ Source Staffing Solutions: 14.2 → 17.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 17.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2017

Employ Source Staffing Solutions's TCR rose 2.9 from 14.2 in 2016 to 17.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Dekalb, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.7 · 475% of ind

DART 6.9 DART
RANK #9/9
PHOTO Texas Foam Inc.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Texas Foam Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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1301 E 8th St

16.3
Texas Foam Inc

15.9
This site

15.7
CPK-NJ

15
Polar Industri

14.8

What this shows Employ Source Staffing Solutions averages 15.7 TCR (475% of the Food containers, polystyrene foam, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Employ Source Staffing Solutions TCR series: 2016=14.2 · 2017=17.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Employ Source Staffing Solutions falls in its industry

260 Food containers, polystyrene f establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Food containers, polystyrene f employers in Illinois.

Employ Source Staffing Solutions (30 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Employ Source Staffing Solutions has fewer employees than the Food containers, polystyrene foam, manuf median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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	17.1	6.9	5	0	0
2016	14.2	0.0	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · IL · Dekalb

260 Food containers, polystyrene foam, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 93 employers in Dekalb, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Texas Foam Inc.	BASTROP, TX	15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1301 E 8th St	NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR	16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CPK-NJ	EDISON, NJ	15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar	PROSPECT, CT	14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Odell Fire	ODELL	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops	LINCOLN	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Chicago Loop Tech	CHICAGO	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc.	CANTON	30 FTE
CITY-NEAR	3842 - UDC-DeKalb	Dekalb	1,635 FTE
CITY-NEAR	3842 - DeKalb UDC	Dekalb	1,411 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital	Dekalb	1,067 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DeKalb Community Unit School District #428	Dekalb	940 FTE
NAT-TCR	Croell Inc. - Mason City	Mason City, IA	15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Agri Electric	Chico, CA	15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	P&P Transportation	Indianapolis, IN	15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	4769-6041-West Elm	Mill Valley, CA	15.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Rai Mx Dca	Washington, DC	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0011 - Stockton, Ca	Stockton, CA	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0006 - Hesperia, Ca	Hesperia, CA	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0005 - Bakersfield, CA	Bakersfield, CA	30 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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