Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums · Illinois

National Container Group

Chicago, IL · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

National Container Group runs at 330% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums workplace, earning a grade F.

National Container Group: 6.9 TCR = 330% of Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

National Container Group safety composite

National Container Group scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

National Container Group: 5.1 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.25× in 2024

National Container Group's TCR rose 3.6 from 5.1 in 2022 to 8.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 330% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #144/153
  • PHOTO Auburn
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Auburn (0.0 TCR gap)

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National Container Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows National Container Group averages 6.9 TCR (330% of the Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums BLS benchmark).

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

National Container Group TCR series: 2022=5.1 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 2.1

Where National Container Group falls in its industry

2,560 Reconditioning shipping barrel establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #144 safest of 153 Reconditioning shipping barrel employers in Illinois.

National Container Group (58 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate National Container Group
National Container Group (58 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

National Container Group has more employees than the Reconditioning shipping barrels and drum median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 8.8 1.8 4 1 0
2023 6.9 5.2 4 0 0
2022 5.1 5.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · IL · Chicago

2,560 Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in 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 Auburn 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arbor Material Handling, Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TB Mansfield 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Casselton 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Relay Ops 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - La Salle 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menold Construction and Restoration 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALPA Construction, Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Ppcc LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Plainview 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Zimmerman Transfer Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2197 - Westminster Orchard Parkway 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE HLWW High School 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Office Papers 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Spore 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE QuantumScape Battery, Inc. SJ4 58 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.