Denatured alcohol manufacturing · Illinois

Equistar Chemicals

Tuscola, IL · ~96 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Equistar Chemicals runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Equistar Chemicals: 0.6 TCR = 17% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Equistar Chemicals safety composite

Equistar Chemicals scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Equistar Chemicals held a steady TCR band

Equistar Chemicals's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.9 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Tuscola, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO Valero Renewable Fue…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Hartley Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Equistar Chemicals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Equistar Chemicals averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Equistar Chemicals TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0.9 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Equistar Chemicals falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in Illinois.

Equistar Chemicals (96 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 Equistar Chemicals
Equistar Chemicals (96 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Equistar Chemicals has more employees than the Denatured alcohol manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2018 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2017 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IL · Tuscola

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 14 employers in Tuscola, 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 Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Hartley Plant 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poet Biorefining - Fostoria 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Charles City Plant 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC (dba Valero Linden Plant) 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience UTI1 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLM Midwest 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Toro Construction Corp 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lytle Electric Company 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR JL Allen Services, Inc. 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cabot Corporation Tuscola 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tuscola 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kirby Foods Tuscola 67 FTE
NAT-TCR K Cunningham Construction Co., Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ontario #986 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HF Group LLC - OH 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Permian Tank & Manufacturing, Inc. - Odessa Fiberglass 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Android Industries - Detroit 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE King's Daughters 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oji Intertech.Inc 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE VTA Houston 96 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.