Medicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing · Illinois

Pfanstiehl INC

Waukegan, IL · ~110 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pfanstiehl INC runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Medicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Pfanstiehl INC: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Medicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pfanstiehl INC safety composite

Pfanstiehl INC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.1

2016→2024

Pfanstiehl INC injury rate improved

Pfanstiehl INC's TCR fell 10.1 from 10.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.1 · 2017=5.0 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=4.3 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325411 · Waukegan, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Thermo Fisher Scient…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thermo Fisher Scientific Greenville SC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pfanstiehl INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pfanstiehl INC averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Medicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pfanstiehl INC TCR series: 2016=10.1 · 2017=5 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=4.3 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Pfanstiehl INC falls in its industry

260 Medicinal chemicals, uncompoun establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Medicinal chemicals, uncompoun employers in Illinois.

Pfanstiehl INC (110 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Pfanstiehl INC
Pfanstiehl INC (110 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Pfanstiehl INC has fewer employees than the Medicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manuf median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.7 3.7 5 0 0
2019 4.3 3.4 5 0 0
2018 2.1 1.0 1 1 0
2017 5.0 2.0 4 1 0
2016 10.1 8.1 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325411 · IL · Waukegan

260 Medicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing 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 Thermo Fisher Scientific Greenville SC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moab 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Innophos Nutrition, North Salt Lake 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ravena 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lankford Construction Company 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROSSI CONTRACTORS, INC. 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE 141 - Great Hills Constructors 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plibrico Refractories LLC 110 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 Reesman's Excavating and Grading 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Seneca Foods Corporation 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dutch Valley Transportation, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Walterboro,SC - 211 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fairborn USA inc. 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Culy Contracting LLC. 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Overland Park KS 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Triple Cities Metal Finishing 110 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.