Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing · Illinois

Knight Plastics

Woodstock, IL · ~173 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knight Plastics runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Knight Plastics: 2.9 TCR = 89% of Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knight Plastics safety composite

Knight Plastics scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Knight Plastics: 0.0 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2018

Knight Plastics's TCR rose 5.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 89% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #91/175
  • PHOTO KAYSUN CORPORATION
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KAYSUN CORPORATION (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knight Plastics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knight Plastics averages 2.9 TCR (89% of the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Knight Plastics TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Knight Plastics falls in its industry

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics establishments

Safer than 58% 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 #91 safest of 175 Bottle caps and lids, plastics employers in Illinois.

Knight Plastics (173 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 Knight Plastics
Knight Plastics (173 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Knight Plastics has more employees than the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufact 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
2018 5.9 3.3 9 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · Woodstock

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 52 employers in Woodstock, 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 KAYSUN CORPORATION 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sealed Air Corp 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carclo Technical Plastics- Export 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR VIANT PUERTO RICO, INC 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE NTI National Technologies 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill & Valley, Inc. 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake County Press 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avnet Chicago US34H 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR CENTEGRA HOSPITAL WOODSTOCK 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodstock Sterile Solutions 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3434 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3434 310 FTE
NAT-TCR Brian Center Health & Retirement/Monroe 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarke Power Services Memphis 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AAH Dougherty Hospice House 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington Meter Department 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Defiance Hospital 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sabert RDC 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE WS Packaging Group, Inc - Mason/WSA 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE 100179 - Kamehameha Guideway 173 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: 2018, 2017. 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.