Coating metals and metal products for the trade · Illinois

Material Sciences Corporation

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~72 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Material Sciences Corporation runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade F.

Material Sciences Corporation: 8.0 TCR = 242% of Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Material Sciences Corporation safety composite

Material Sciences Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Material Sciences Corporation: 3.7 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.96× in 2024

Material Sciences Corporation's TCR rose 12.0 from 3.7 in 2022 to 15.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Elk Grove Village, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 242% of ind

  • DART 15.7 DART
  • RANK #34/41
  • PHOTO Skycoat LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Skycoat LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Material Sciences Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Material Sciences Corporation averages 8.0 TCR (242% of the Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Material Sciences Corporation TCR series: 2022=3.7 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=15.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Material Sciences Corporation falls in its industry

646 Coating metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 41 Coating metals and metal produ employers in Illinois.

Material Sciences Corporation (72 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Material Sciences Corporation
Material Sciences Corporation (72 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Material Sciences Corporation has more employees than the Coating metals and metal products for th median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 15.7 15.7 13 0 0
2023 4.6 4.6 4 0 0
2022 3.7 3.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · IL · Elk Grove Village

646 Coating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, 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 Skycoat LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steelscape, LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BDJ / Techmation, Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atmosphere Annealing LLC, Bassett St. Facility 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Hillsboro / Mt. Clare 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Persimmon Street 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Astoria Wire & Metal Products 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Korte and Luitjohan Contractors, Inc. 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR creative werks, LLC 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL008 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR Ridgeview Institute Smyrna 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Greater New Haven Transit District 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2520 - Lewisville State Highway 121 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HC greater New Orleans 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rutherford Supply 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Atomics - Poway - A39 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Atomics - Cryotech 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orion Plastics 72 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.