Printing Ink Manufacturer · Illinois

INX International Ink Co. (5800)

West Chicago, IL · ~129 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

INX International Ink Co. (5800) runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Printing Ink Manufacturer workplace, earning a grade C.

INX International Ink Co. (5800): 3.1 TCR = 95% of Printing Ink Manufacturer BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

INX International Ink Co. (5800) safety composite

INX International Ink Co. (5800) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

INX International Ink Co. (5800): 1.5 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2023

INX International Ink Co. (5800)'s TCR rose 0.9 from 1.5 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · West Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #9/15
  • PHOTO Sun Chemical Menasha
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sun Chemical Menasha (0.0 TCR gap)

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INX International Ink Co. (5800) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows INX International Ink Co. (5800) averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Printing Ink Manufacturer BLS benchmark).

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

INX International Ink Co. (5800) TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2018=5.3 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=3.9 · 2023=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where INX International Ink Co. (5800) falls in its industry

111 Printing Ink Manufacturer establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 15 Printing Ink Manufacturer employers in Illinois.

INX International Ink Co. (5800) (129 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate INX International Ink Co. (5800)
INX International Ink Co. (5800) (129 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

INX International Ink Co. (5800) has more employees than the Printing Ink Manufacturer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2021 3.9 2.3 4 1 0
2020 2.5 1.7 3 0 0
2019 - - 3 0 0
2018 5.3 4.5 7 0 0
2016 1.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · IL · West Chicago

111 Printing Ink Manufacturer employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West Chicago, 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 Sun Chemical Menasha 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR St Paul 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Chemical Kankakee 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR INX International Ink Co. (5900) 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coffeen Power Station 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advantage Contractor Solutions 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Utility LLC 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Battaglia Industries, Inc. 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Theisen's of Dubuque 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunrise Windows 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 10 - Biltmore 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR C.H. Guenther & Son D.B.A. Cookietree Bakeries 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health - Rehabilitation Hospital of Franklin 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt(classic Container),inc 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bailey Manufacturing, LLC 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of Thomaston 129 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.