Reflectors, plastics, manufacturing · Illinois

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles

St. Charles, IL · ~32 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Reflectors, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles: 4.8 TCR = 145% of Reflectors, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles safety composite

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles: 4.0 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.53× in 2021

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles's TCR rose 3.4 from 4.0 in 2018 to 7.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · St. Charles, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #124/175
  • PHOTO Novares US LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Novares US LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles averages 4.8 TCR (145% of the Reflectors, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles TCR series: 2018=4 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles falls in its industry

2,838 Reflectors, plastics, manufact establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #124 safest of 175 Reflectors, plastics, manufact employers in Illinois.

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles (32 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles
Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles (32 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles has fewer employees than the Reflectors, plastics, manufacturing 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
2021 7.3 7.3 2 0 0
2020 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2019 4.7 2.3 2 0 0
2018 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · St. Charles

2,838 Reflectors, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in St. Charles, 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 Novares US LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pelican BioThermal Plymouth 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tray-Pak Corporation 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Engineered Plastics Molding 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Department 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - AIC Gas Corrosion 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Ottawa Reporting Center 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rukel Management, LLC. 607 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omron Automotive Electronics, Inc. (OEDC) 572 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility of America Corporation 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility America Corporation 439 FTE
NAT-TCR Wisconsin Bldg - Green Bay Door 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Majestic Steel USA - HOU 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR VITALIGENT LLC Pleasant Hill 156 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR John Wayne Airport Administration Bldg 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pike Lumber Company- Milan 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bozeman OB/GYN Clinic 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE HYV 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Operations Center 32 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.