Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing · Illinois

MSI Express - West Chicago

West Chicago, IL · ~123 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MSI Express - West Chicago runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

MSI Express - West Chicago: 1.4 TCR = 44% of Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MSI Express - West Chicago safety composite

MSI Express - West Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

MSI Express - West Chicago: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2024

MSI Express - West Chicago's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2021 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #33/175
  • PHOTO Nifco America Corpor…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nifco America Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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MSI Express - West Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MSI Express - West Chicago averages 1.4 TCR (44% of the Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

MSI Express - West Chicago TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where MSI Express - West Chicago falls in its industry

2,838 Packaging, plastics (e.g., bli establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #33 safest of 175 Packaging, plastics (e.g., bli employers in Illinois.

MSI Express - West Chicago (123 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 MSI Express - West Chicago
MSI Express - West Chicago (123 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

MSI Express - West Chicago has more employees than the Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubb 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 1.8 0.6 3 0 0
2023 2.5 1.7 2 1 0
2022 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · West Chicago

2,838 Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West Chicago, 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 Nifco America Corporation 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corning Life Sciences 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atrium Windows and Doors 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Assembly Facility 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Oak Forest - Public Works 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Midwest (Chicago) 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reyes Group Ltd 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iroquois Paving Corporation 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Moran Printing, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 8010506 Oliver Rubber Company 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nifco America Corporation 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR COR Chico Business Office 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 8027604 Heartland Automotive 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parker CO 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Marine, LLC 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckeye Relief 123 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. 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.