Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) · Illinois

Ox Engineered Products

Name: Ox Engineered Products Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Chicago, IL · ~119 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ox Engineered Products runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) workplace, earning a grade C.

Ox Engineered Products: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ox Engineered Products safety composite

Ox Engineered Products scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Ox Engineered Products: 2.2 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2021

Ox Engineered Products's TCR rose 1.4 from 2.2 in 2020 to 3.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

DART 2.9 DART
RANK #3/7
PHOTO Hopewell Mill
BOOK 2y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hopewell Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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3
Thilmany Mill

3
This site

2.9
Hopewell Mill

2.9
Holyoke- Paper

2.9

What this shows Ox Engineered Products averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) BLS benchmark).

Ox Engineered Products TCR series: 2020=2.2 · 2021=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ox Engineered Products falls in its industry

317 Pulp mills producing paper (ex establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Pulp mills producing paper (ex employers in Illinois.

Ox Engineered Products (119 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Ox Engineered Products has fewer employees than the Pulp mills producing paper (except groun median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2021	3.6	2.9	5	0	0
2020	2.2	0.0	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · IL · Chicago

317 Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Hopewell Mill	HOPEWELL, VA	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Holyoke- Paper - B353	HOLYOKE, MA	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	TAMKO - Knoxville	KNOXVILLE, TN	3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Thilmany Mill	KAUKAUNA, WI	3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	119 - Archer Western de Moya JV III	CHICAGO	119 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1001 - Romeoville, IL	ROMEOVILLE	119 FTE
STATE-SIZE	City of Sycamore	SYCAMORE	119 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Upland Concrete	PINGREE GROVE	119 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago Public Schools	Chicago	49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago/Corporate	Chicago	18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Illinois at Chicago	Chicago	13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University Health Service UIC UIC Campus	Chicago	12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR	44171p - W Monroe	West Monroe, LA	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	43331af - Wichita Pec	Wichita, KS	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Big Lots Store #4046 ORANGE, CA	Orange, CA	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Manufacturing	Commerce City, CO	2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	0628 - Longview	Kelso, WA	119 FTE
NAT-SIZE	US Bakery-Dunford Bakers	Portland, OR	119 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Serta Clear Lake	Clear Lake, IA	119 FTE
NAT-SIZE	PPA Industries, Inc	Wellford, SC	119 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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