Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Illinois

Flex-N-Gate Plastics

Danville, IL · ~201 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flex-N-Gate Plastics runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Flex-N-Gate Plastics: 5.1 TCR = 155% of Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flex-N-Gate Plastics safety composite

Flex-N-Gate Plastics scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

−5.8

2016→2024

Flex-N-Gate Plastics injury rate improved

Flex-N-Gate Plastics's TCR fell 5.8 from 9.7 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.7 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=4.0 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Danville, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #126/175
  • PHOTO Kerrico Corporation
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 79 inj
  • SIZE ~201 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kerrico Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flex-N-Gate Plastics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flex-N-Gate Plastics averages 5.1 TCR (155% of the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Flex-N-Gate Plastics TCR series: 2016=9.7 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=4 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Flex-N-Gate Plastics falls in its industry

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #126 safest of 175 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib employers in Illinois.

Flex-N-Gate Plastics (201 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Flex-N-Gate Plastics
Flex-N-Gate Plastics (201 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Flex-N-Gate Plastics has more employees than the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 3.9 3.5 9 0 0
2023 3.5 3.2 10 0 0
2022 3.5 2.3 9 0 0
2021 2.1 2.1 5 0 0
2020 4.0 3.3 5 1 0
2019 4.3 4.3 7 0 0
2018 8.6 4.3 14 0 0
2017 6.3 3.1 8 0 0
2016 9.7 7.5 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · Danville

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 112 employers in Danville, 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 Kerrico Corporation 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stone Plastics and Manufacturing 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Uniphase, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Diversified Industries 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Chicago - CDOT, Main 2 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winpak Heat Seal Corporation 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2967-IL192 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE OPTO International, Inc. 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIDWEST 785 FTE
CITY-NEAR KIK Custom Products 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sacred Heart Medical Center 540 FTE
CITY-NEAR CC 300625 DANVILLE PLT 525 FTE
NAT-TCR Battle Ground 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Apple Ford INC, dba Apple Ford Lincoln Apple Valley 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Broadcom Limited Ridder Park D 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Prowers Medical Center 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Page Memorial Hospital 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swainsboro 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE OSR Louisiana, LLC (d/b/a Ochsner Rehabilitation Hospital) 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE K. Hovnanian Companies Corporate Office 201 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.