Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing · Illinois

NGC - Waukegan Plant

Waukegan, IL · ~57 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NGC - Waukegan Plant runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

NGC - Waukegan Plant: 2.8 TCR = 86% of Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NGC - Waukegan Plant safety composite

NGC - Waukegan Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

NGC - Waukegan Plant: 1.6 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.33× in 2020

NGC - Waukegan Plant's TCR rose 5.0 from 1.6 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327420 · Waukegan, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 86% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK P38
  • PHOTO Palatka Plant
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Palatka Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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NGC - Waukegan Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NGC - Waukegan Plant averages 2.8 TCR (86% of the Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

NGC - Waukegan Plant TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=3 · 2020=6.6 · BLS 3.3

Where NGC - Waukegan Plant falls in its industry

123 Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
NGC - Waukegan Plant (57 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate NGC - Waukegan Plant
NGC - Waukegan Plant (57 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3

NGC - Waukegan Plant has fewer employees than the Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2020 6.6 6.6 3 1 0
2019 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2018 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2017 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2016 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327420 · IL · Waukegan

123 Wallboard, gypsum, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 141 employers in Waukegan, 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 Palatka Plant 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR USG Corporation Chicago Construction 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Gypsum Sigurd 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CertainTeed Gypsum Manufacturing Inc Carrollton Kentucky 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Concrete, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centennial Contractors of the Quad Cities, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Carpentry, Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukegan PSD #60 2,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista Medical Center 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visual Pak Waukegan 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Blending & Filling 793 FTE
NAT-TCR 147 Quickchek Food Store 147 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR QuantumClean-Fremont 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Erie Tobacco Company 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : TPA - Tampa 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 164 Pleasant Prairie Wi 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : RDM - Redmond-Bend 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Staples Auburn FC and SDO 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martin Systems Inc. 57 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: 2020, 2019, 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.