Tires, plastics, manufacturing · Illinois

Hoffer Plastics

South Elgin, IL · ~389 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hoffer Plastics runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Tires, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hoffer Plastics: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Tires, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hoffer Plastics safety composite

Hoffer Plastics scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

−2.9

2016→2024

Hoffer Plastics injury rate improved

Hoffer Plastics's TCR fell 2.9 from 4.1 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2018=2.7 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · South Elgin, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #71/175
  • PHOTO CertainTeed Corporat…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~389 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CertainTeed Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hoffer Plastics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hoffer Plastics averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Tires, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hoffer Plastics TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2018=2.7 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Hoffer Plastics falls in its industry

2,838 Tires, plastics, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 66% 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 #71 safest of 175 Tires, plastics, manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Hoffer Plastics (389 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hoffer Plastics
Hoffer Plastics (389 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Hoffer Plastics has more employees than the Tires, plastics, manufacturing median and a lower 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 1.1 0.3 4 0 0
2023 1.2 0.0 4 0 0
2022 3.2 2.1 12 0 0
2018 2.7 2.0 11 0 0
2016 4.1 2.4 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · South Elgin

2,838 Tires, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 45 employers in South Elgin, 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 CertainTeed Corporation 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mold Masters Company 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Davenport, Iowa Facility 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1418 389 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dekalb DKC Bldg 5 389 FTE
STATE-SIZE Administrative Center 389 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hollywood Casino Aurora 389 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1896 - South Elgin 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Custom Aluminum Products Inc 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tower Hill Healthcare Center 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR W.B. McCloud & Company, Inc. 197 FTE
NAT-TCR Wallingford 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawson Trucking, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Golf Warehouse 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cantoni Plumbing 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 644 Ola1000 389 FTE
NAT-SIZE Options in Community Living, Inc. 389 FTE
NAT-SIZE Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority 389 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco Central Pennsylvania 389 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, 2018, 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.