Packaging film, plastics, single-web or multiweb, manufacturing · Illinois

HQC Inc.

Oswego, IL · ~84 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HQC Inc. runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Packaging film, plastics, single-web or multiweb, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

HQC Inc.: 4.5 TCR = 136% of Packaging film, plastics, single-web or multiweb, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HQC Inc. safety composite

HQC Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−212.1

2019→2024

HQC Inc. injury rate improved

HQC Inc.'s TCR fell 212.1 from 215.1 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 215.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=215.1 · 2022=6.0 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326112 · Oswego, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #28/35
  • PHOTO Deufol Sunman, INC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Deufol Sunman, INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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HQC Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HQC Inc. averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Packaging film, plastics, single-web or multiweb, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HQC Inc. TCR series: 2019=215.1 · 2022=6 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where HQC Inc. falls in its industry

396 Packaging film, plastics, sing establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 35 Packaging film, plastics, sing employers in Illinois.

HQC Inc. (84 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate HQC Inc.
HQC Inc. (84 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4

HQC Inc. has fewer employees than the Packaging film, plastics, single-web or median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2022 6.0 3.6 5 0 0
2019 215.1 35.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326112 · IL · Oswego

396 Packaging film, plastics, single-web or multiweb, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 59 employers in Oswego, 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 Deufol Sunman, INC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warren Packaging Company 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix Packaging Operations 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charter NEX Films, Inc. - Superior Plant Location 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Joliet Station 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schomburg & Schomburg Construction Incorporated 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE MEC DE JOINT VENTURE 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premium Concrete Inc. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nine Mile Point (NMP) Nuclear Station 849 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3400 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3400 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oswegoland Park District 288 FTE
NAT-TCR Price Chopper #200 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR East Coast Concrete Specialties, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Repeating Arms - Ladysmith 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Paragon Services, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terex USA LLC 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Mirada-Main 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mining Controls, LLC dba Elgin Power Solutions 84 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, 2022, 2019. 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.