Machine tools, metal forming, manufacturing · Illinois

Encore Packaging, LLC

Vernon Hills, IL · ~40 workers · 2 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

Encore Packaging, LLC runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine tools, metal forming, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Encore Packaging, LLC: 4.8 TCR = 145% of Machine tools, metal forming, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Encore Packaging, LLC safety composite

Encore Packaging, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Encore Packaging, LLC: 0.0 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Encore Packaging, LLC's TCR rose 9.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 9.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333517 · Vernon Hills, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/35
  • PHOTO Ingersoll Machine To…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingersoll Machine Tools (0.0 TCR gap)

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Encore Packaging, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Encore Packaging, LLC averages 4.8 TCR (145% of the Machine tools, metal forming, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Encore Packaging, LLC TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=9.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Encore Packaging, LLC falls in its industry

391 Machine tools, metal forming, establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 35 Machine tools, metal forming, employers in Illinois.

Encore Packaging, LLC (40 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Encore Packaging, LLC
Encore Packaging, LLC (40 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Encore Packaging, LLC has fewer employees than the Machine tools, metal forming, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2022 9.6 0.0 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333517 · IL · Vernon Hills

391 Machine tools, metal forming, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 65 employers in Vernon Hills, 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 Ingersoll Machine Tools 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR empirical foods, inc. - Assembly 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cornerstone Wauseon, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Argo Products Company, Inc. 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Integrity Management 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Bloomington Reporting Center 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Downers Grove Sanitary District 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Window Works Addison 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Hills 1,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rust-Oleum 580 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Hills, IL - BCU 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Vernon Hills 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Carpenter IRA 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Transystems LLC - Sidney Project 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Commercial Mechanical Construction, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Intermountain Plantings, LLC - UT 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rhodes 790 - Travel Center 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-AA-ABQ-ALBUQUERQUE-ABQ-TRML 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE City-Wide Forestry/Landscape 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Catherine Family of Plants 40 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.