Paint sticks, plastics, manufacturing · Illinois

KW Container - Chicago Heights

Chicago Heights, IL · ~25 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KW Container - Chicago Heights runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Paint sticks, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

KW Container - Chicago Heights: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Paint sticks, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KW Container - Chicago Heights safety composite

KW Container - Chicago Heights scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

KW Container - Chicago Heights held a steady TCR band

KW Container - Chicago Heights's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Chicago Heights, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #37/175
  • PHOTO Texas Extrusion (TXXT)
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Texas Extrusion (TXXT) (0.0 TCR gap)

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KW Container - Chicago Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KW Container - Chicago Heights averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Paint sticks, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

KW Container - Chicago Heights TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where KW Container - Chicago Heights falls in its industry

2,838 Paint sticks, plastics, manufa establishments

Safer than 84% 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 #37 safest of 175 Paint sticks, plastics, manufa employers in Illinois.

KW Container - Chicago Heights (25 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 KW Container - Chicago Heights
KW Container - Chicago Heights (25 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

KW Container - Chicago Heights has fewer employees than the Paint sticks, plastics, manufacturing 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 7.4 7.4 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · Chicago Heights

2,838 Paint sticks, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, 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 Texas Extrusion (TXXT) 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garrett Liners Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dart Container - Ada 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albany - Radiant 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Emerald Mound Lebanon Fire Department 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steve Piper and Sons, Inc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Meter Services North 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Hatfield, MA 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vitesco Technologies USA LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI Humboldt 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR General Atomics - Gray Butte 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rustic Ridge Electric, Inc. dba S&G Electric Motor Repair 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE RJ Schinner Branch 8 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 540 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Container Graphics Corp 25 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.