Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · Illinois

KNS

Carol Stream, IL · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KNS runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

KNS: 5.7 TCR = 174% of Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KNS safety composite

KNS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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)
F 5.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

KNS: 5.4 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

KNS's TCR rose 0.8 from 5.4 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Carol Stream, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 174% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #47/59
  • PHOTO Pioneer Powder Coati…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pioneer Powder Coatings LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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KNS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KNS averages 5.7 TCR (174% of the Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

KNS TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=11.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where KNS falls in its industry

530 Industrial product finishes an establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #47 safest of 59 Industrial product finishes an employers in Illinois.

KNS (21 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate KNS
KNS (21 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

KNS has fewer employees than the Industrial product finishes and coatings 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
2019 6.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 11.4 11.4 2 0 0
2016 5.4 5.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · IL · Carol Stream

530 Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 170 employers in Carol Stream, 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 Pioneer Powder Coatings LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpha Coatings Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone Cherry Hill Facility 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TMS Manufacturing Co. 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frank W. Lewis & Son Seed FArms, Inc 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE RAVENS LIVESTOCK & FARMS INC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bushnell 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 21st Century Sow Farm 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group 2,151 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Litho, Inc. 1,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161275-CAROL STREAM IL P&DC 960 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods - Carol Stream 853 FTE
NAT-TCR ArcelorMittal Steelton LLC. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Monroe Hospital 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Henkel Oak Creek 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Trimark Economy 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lindsay Mobile Rigs 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keller Products, Inc.-Wood Division 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE OFFICE 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Criterion 21 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.