Paperboard mills · Illinois

Ox Industries Illinois, LLC

Pekin, IL · ~51 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ox Industries Illinois, LLC runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paperboard mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Ox Industries Illinois, LLC: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Paperboard mills BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ox Industries Illinois, LLC safety composite

Ox Industries Illinois, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2019→2024

Ox Industries Illinois, LLC injury rate improved

Ox Industries Illinois, LLC's TCR fell 1.0 from 5.6 in 2019 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.6 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322130 · Pekin, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Roaring Spring Mill
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Roaring Spring Mill (0.2 TCR gap)

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Ox Industries Illinois, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ox Industries Illinois, LLC averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the Paperboard mills BLS benchmark).

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

Ox Industries Illinois, LLC TCR series: 2019=5.6 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ox Industries Illinois, LLC falls in its industry

181 Paperboard mills establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Paperboard mills employers in Illinois.

Ox Industries Illinois, LLC (51 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ox Industries Illinois, LLC
Ox Industries Illinois, LLC (51 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Ox Industries Illinois, LLC has fewer employees than the Paperboard mills 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
2024 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2023 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2022 7.2 7.2 4 0 0
2021 7.2 7.2 4 0 0
2020 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2019 5.6 5.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322130 · IL · Pekin

181 Paperboard mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 84 employers in Pekin, 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 Roaring Spring Mill 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GA077 Cedar Springs Paper 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carotell Paperboard 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Board Mill Operations 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Larch Farm 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDG 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prince Minerals LLC - QUI 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Quincy 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Correctional Institution - Staff and Inmates 1,380 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pekin Hospital 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR 603 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 603 351 FTE
NAT-TCR Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors Salt Lake City 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Early Childhood Family Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shippers Transport Express Carson 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Statz & Harrop, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Green Bay West 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carciofini Company 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Strip, Inc. Bowling Green 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mary Greeley Medical Center Home Health 51 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. 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.