Powder coatings manufacturing · Illinois

Midwest Powder coating Inc.

St. Charles, IL · ~85 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Powder coating Inc. runs at 661% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Powder coatings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Midwest Powder coating Inc.: 21.8 TCR = 661% of Powder coatings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Powder coating Inc. safety composite

Midwest Powder coating Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2016→2018

Midwest Powder coating Inc. injury rate improved

Midwest Powder coating Inc.'s TCR fell 1.3 from 17.0 in 2016 to 15.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 32.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=17.0 · 2017=32.6 · 2018=15.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · St. Charles, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.8 · 661% of ind

  • DART 13.1 DART
  • RANK #59/59
  • PHOTO Metrix LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metrix LLC (0.8 TCR gap)

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Midwest Powder coating Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Powder coating Inc. averages 21.8 TCR (661% of the Powder coatings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Powder coating Inc. TCR series: 2016=17 · 2017=32.6 · 2018=15.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Midwest Powder coating Inc. falls in its industry

530 Powder coatings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #59 safest of 59 Powder coatings manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Midwest Powder coating Inc. (85 employees, TCR 21.8) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Midwest Powder coating Inc.
Midwest Powder coating Inc. (85 employees, TCR 21.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Midwest Powder coating Inc. has more employees than the Powder coatings manufacturing 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
2018 15.8 13.1 5 1 0
2017 32.6 21.7 12 0 0
2016 17.0 6.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · IL · St. Charles

530 Powder coatings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in St. Charles, 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 Metrix LLC 22.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR K.B.P. Coil Coaters inc. 19.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tnemec Company 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carboline Dayton 18.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Atkinson 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Utica UTI1 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monmouth, IL 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton Power Station 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rukel Management, LLC. 607 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omron Automotive Electronics, Inc. (OEDC) 572 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility of America Corporation 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility America Corporation 439 FTE
NAT-TCR SMF - Provisioning 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The W Senior Living at Goshen 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Park of Pacific Palisades 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Your Neighborhood Deliveries Inc 21.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 2922 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied AEC 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Purolite 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piersma Dairy, Inc. 85 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, 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.