Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) · Illinois

Nosco - Waukegan Facility

Waukegan, IL · ~200 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nosco - Waukegan Facility runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) workplace, earning a grade D.

Nosco - Waukegan Facility: 4.6 TCR = 141% of Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nosco - Waukegan Facility safety composite

Nosco - Waukegan Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Nosco - Waukegan Facility: 2.3 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2020

Nosco - Waukegan Facility's TCR rose 4.6 from 2.3 in 2019 to 6.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Waukegan, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 141% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #119/145
  • PHOTO THE ROCK GA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: THE ROCK GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nosco - Waukegan Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nosco - Waukegan Facility averages 4.6 TCR (141% of the Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS benchmark).

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

Nosco - Waukegan Facility TCR series: 2019=2.3 · 2020=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Nosco - Waukegan Facility falls in its industry

2,001 Offset printing (except books, establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #119 safest of 145 Offset printing (except books, employers in Illinois.

Nosco - Waukegan Facility (200 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Nosco - Waukegan Facility
Nosco - Waukegan Facility (200 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Nosco - Waukegan Facility has more employees than the Offset printing (except books, printing 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
2020 6.9 4.2 4 6 0
2019 2.3 1.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · IL · Waukegan

2,001 Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) 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 THE ROCK GA 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paterson, NJ 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Forks Herald - Production Plant 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westamerica Communications, Inc. 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE JBEC 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anning-Johnson Company Illinois 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Axium Foods, Inc 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sensient Flavors - Amboy 200 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 Marceline South 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FFD-Cedar Bluff, LLC (dba Famous Dave`s) 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Transport Holdings- Merrillville 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Homewood Suites - Cape Canaveral 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mainland Medical Center 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE AK Steel - Zanesville Works 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schiff's Restaurant Service, Inc 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE NR Inc 200 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. 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.