Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing · Illinois

ITW Hi-Cone Charleston

Name: ITW Hi-Cone Charleston Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Charleston, IL · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

ITW Hi-Cone Charleston runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

ITW Hi-Cone Charleston: 4.1 TCR = 123% of Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ITW Hi-Cone Charleston safety composite

ITW Hi-Cone Charleston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

ITW Hi-Cone Charleston: 3.5 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2020

ITW Hi-Cone Charleston's TCR rose 1.1 from 3.5 in 2019 to 4.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 123% of ind

DART 3.1 DART
RANK #27/35
PHOTO National Plastek, Inc.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: National Plastek, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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4.2
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4
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4
Liveo Research

4

What this shows ITW Hi-Cone Charleston averages 4.1 TCR (123% of the Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

ITW Hi-Cone Charleston TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2020=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where ITW Hi-Cone Charleston falls in its industry

396 Film, plastics, packaging, man establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 35 Film, plastics, packaging, man employers in Illinois.

ITW Hi-Cone Charleston (58 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4

ITW Hi-Cone Charleston has fewer employees than the Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing 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
2020	4.6	3.1	3	0	0
2019	3.5	0.0	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326112 · IL · Charleston

396 Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 41 employers in Charleston, 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	National Plastek, Inc.	DUTTON, MI	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Polychem LLC -Greenbridge - Clyde, OH	CLYDE, OH	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sigma Technologies Int'l LLC	TUCSON, AZ	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Liveo Research, Inc	NEW CASTLE, DE	4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Relay Ops	DECATUR	58 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - La Salle	LA SALLE	58 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Menold Construction and Restoration	MORTON	58 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ALPA Construction, Inc.	BEDFORD PARK	58 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eastern Illinois University	Charleston	2,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Charleston CUSD #1	Charleston	360 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 612	Charleston	300 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eastern Illinois Area of Special Education	Charleston	267 FTE
NAT-TCR	E.E. Austin & Son, Inc.	Erie, PA	4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	095-01 Maria's Holding Corporation	Van Nuys, CA	4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Callahan Paving Corp.	Syosset, NY	4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	National Fuel Distribution Dunkirk Servicenter	Dunkirk, NY	4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Acuity Brands Lighting NEDC	Carlise, PA	58 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Michels Pipe Service- Brownsville	Brownsville, WI	58 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Napa Detroit Distribution Center	Romulus, MI	58 FTE
NAT-SIZE	2005 Coborn's Centennial	St. Cloud, MN	58 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: 2020, 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.