Plastics foam products (except disposable) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Northern Products Company

Alsip, IL · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Products Company runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plastics foam products (except disposable) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Northern Products Company: 3.0 TCR = 137% of Plastics foam products (except disposable) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Products Company safety composite

Northern Products Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

Northern Products Company: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Northern Products Company's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 6.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424990 · Alsip, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.0 · 137% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/15
  • PHOTO JBC CA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JBC CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Products Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Products Company averages 3.0 TCR (137% of the Plastics foam products (except disposable) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Products Company TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=6 · BLS 2.2

Where Northern Products Company falls in its industry

301 Plastics foam products (except establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 15 Plastics foam products (except employers in Illinois.

Northern Products Company (47 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern Products Company
Northern Products Company (47 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Northern Products Company has fewer employees than the Plastics foam products (except disposabl median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 6.0 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424990 · IL · Alsip

301 Plastics foam products (except disposable) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 117 employers in Alsip, 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 JBC CA 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas Book Company 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dallas 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaman's Art Shoppes, Inc. SFOG-100 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1987-Jerseyville, IL (Monsanto Co.) 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-Mfg 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Power, Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Decatur 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Menasha Packaging Company - Alsip 783 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1005 - Alsip 594 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alsip 388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Griffith Foods - Alsip 380 FTE
NAT-TCR CEMI dba Celmark International 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Smokies Lodge Vacation Property Owners Association Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Englewood 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Los Angeles 5721 W 96th St 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pepsi-Cola of Mitchell 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nicomatic LLC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Park 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evercompounds LLC 47 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. 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.