Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing · Illinois

Essentra

Forest Park, IL · ~125 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essentra runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Essentra: 2.1 TCR = 62% of Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essentra safety composite

Essentra scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2016→2018

Essentra injury rate improved

Essentra's TCR fell 1.4 from 3.1 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Forest Park, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #4/16
  • PHOTO Re-Tek, Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Re-Tek, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essentra in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essentra averages 2.1 TCR (62% of the Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Essentra TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Essentra falls in its industry

257 Sheeting, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 16 Sheeting, rubber, manufacturin employers in Illinois.

Essentra (125 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Essentra
Essentra (125 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Essentra has more employees than the Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2018 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2017 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2016 3.1 2.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · IL · Forest Park

257 Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 34 employers in Forest Park, 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 Re-Tek, Inc 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clover 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meggitt Polymers & Composites 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Joppa Power Station 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dunnet Bay Main 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE J3 Construction Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westside Mechanical Group Design/Build, LLC. 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO NDC_1434840 1,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161541-CHICAGO NDC 880 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2204 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2204 467 FTE
NAT-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5201 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CHOC Children's Mission V2 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5137 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MB-Memphis 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Goodrich AL - Opa-Locka 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Bend Modern Molding 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSAR Decision 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eversource - Southboro Electric 125 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: 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.