Gum and wood chemicals manufacturing · Illinois

Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility

Name: Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Channahon, IL · ~271 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Gum and wood chemicals manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Gum and wood chemicals manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility safety composite

Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility held a steady TCR band

Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.7 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.7 · 2017=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325194 · Channahon, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

DART 0.4 DART
RANK P84
PHOTO Kraton Chemical LLC,…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~271 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kraton Chemical LLC, Dover Site (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kingsford Manu

0.6
INEOS Joliet

0.6
This site

0.5
Kraton Chemica

0.5
The Chemours C

0.5

What this shows Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Gum and wood chemicals manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility falls in its industry

58 Gum and wood chemicals manufac establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility (271 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility has more employees than the Gum and wood chemicals manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2017	0.4	0.4	1	0	0
2016	0.7	0.7	1	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325194 · IL · Channahon

58 Gum and wood chemicals manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 58 employers in Channahon, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Kraton Chemical LLC, Dover Site	DOVER, OH	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Pascagoula	PASCAGOULA, MS	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kingsford Manufacturing Co.	SUMMER SHADE, KY	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	INEOS Joliet	CHANNAHON, IL	0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Bedford Park Thermo	BEDFORD PARK	271 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Winpak Portion Packaging	SAUK VILLAGE	271 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Foodservice : BEDFORD PARK THERMO	BEDFORD PARK	271 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Reynolds Wheeling	WHEELING	271 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - ORD2	Channahon	949 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - ORD9	Channahon	947 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ExxonMobil Joliet Refinery	Channahon	619 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ExxonMobil Oil Corp., Joliet Refinery	Channahon	610 FTE
NAT-TCR	Clean Venture Inc. - Transportation	Elizabeth, NJ	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lone Star Tubular Operations	South Lone Star, TX	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dyersburg Facility	Dyersburg, TN	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	REN192 Detroit	Novi, MI	0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	US - Supply Chain : 0935	Macedonia, OH	271 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Courier Express Marietta, GA	Marietta, GA	271 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ploy Blown Extrusions	Waxahachie, TX	271 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital	Hartford, CT	271 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.