Paper manufacturing · Illinois

Northbrook

Northbrook, IL · ~264 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northbrook runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paper manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Northbrook: 5.9 TCR = 179% of Paper manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northbrook safety composite

Northbrook scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−1.7

2016→2024

Northbrook injury rate improved

Northbrook's TCR fell 1.7 from 1.9 in 2016 to 0.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2017=10.7 · 2018=17.5 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322120 · Northbrook, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 179% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO OR226 Halsey Tissue
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 297 inj
  • SIZE ~264 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OR226 Halsey Tissue (0.8 TCR gap)

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Northbrook in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northbrook averages 5.9 TCR (179% of the Paper manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Northbrook TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=10.7 · 2018=17.5 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Northbrook falls in its industry

28 Paper manufacturing establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Northbrook (264 employees, TCR 5.9) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 328 employees and a TCR of 2.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Northbrook
Northbrook (264 employees, TCR 5.9) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 328 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Northbrook has fewer employees than the Paper manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 10.4 8.3 5 0 0
2021 5.9 0.0 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.7 0.0 3 0 0
2018 17.5 16.1 106 0 0
2017 10.7 10.1 80 1 0
2016 1.9 1.9 99 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322120 · IL · Northbrook

28 Paper manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 122 employers in Northbrook, 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 OR226 Halsey Tissue 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NY120 Plattsburgh Paper 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIBERCEL PACKAGING LLC 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sofidel America 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glen Ellyn Reporting Center 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flinn Scientific 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE IL014 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elmhurst Specialty Sales Office 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas Pharma US 1,228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas Pharma Global Development 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas US LLC 896 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILNOR - NORTHBROOK 780 FTE
NAT-TCR Story City 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gilkey Window Company, Inc. Cincinnati 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Matesich Distributing Co 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sietsema Farms 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE KANPAKUS Manufacturing Arkansas City 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE PA100 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE ANDRES Construction Services 264 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, 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.