Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) · Illinois

Five Star

Du Quoin, IL · ~117 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Five Star runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) workplace, earning a grade D.

Five Star: 6.5 TCR = 171% of Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Five Star safety composite

Five Star scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Five Star held a steady TCR band

Five Star's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.6 in 2023 to 6.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.6 · 2024=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624310 · Du Quoin, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 171% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #44/59
  • PHOTO Village Works
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Village Works (0.0 TCR gap)

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Five Star in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Five Star averages 6.5 TCR (171% of the Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) BLS benchmark).

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

Five Star TCR series: 2023=6.6 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Five Star falls in its industry

1,455 Sheltered workshops (i.e., wor establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 59 Sheltered workshops (i.e., wor employers in Illinois.

Five Star (117 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Five Star
Five Star (117 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Five Star has more employees than the Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experien median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2024 6.4 6.4 3 0 0
2023 6.6 3.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624310 · IL · Du Quoin

1,455 Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Du Quoin, 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 Village Works 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR York Store - Roosevelt Avenue 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Via of the Lehigh Valley 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Work Skills Corporation Plant 2 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2508-Waterman, IL 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE 01 - Walsh Construction Company 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Facebook DKL 3|5|6 21120003 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, Byron Station 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marshall Browning Hospital 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 252 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR 252 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Five Star Industries, Inc. 141 FTE
NAT-TCR Standard Iron and Wire Works LLC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Alloy Custom Products, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tom Dinsdale Automotive Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kendrick Peak 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Client Community Services, Inc. 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Speed North America 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper Streetsboro Container 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transportation 117 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: 2024, 2023. 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.