Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Illinois

Plastic Injection Molding

Oswego, IL · ~94 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plastic Injection Molding runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Plastic Injection Molding: 4.9 TCR = 148% of Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plastic Injection Molding safety composite

Plastic Injection Molding scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Plastic Injection Molding: 1.3 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2017

Plastic Injection Molding's TCR rose 7.1 from 1.3 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Oswego, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #125/175
  • PHOTO Romulus Division
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Romulus Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plastic Injection Molding in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plastic Injection Molding averages 4.9 TCR (148% of the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plastic Injection Molding TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Plastic Injection Molding falls in its industry

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #125 safest of 175 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib employers in Illinois.

Plastic Injection Molding (94 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Plastic Injection Molding
Plastic Injection Molding (94 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Plastic Injection Molding has fewer employees than the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2017 8.4 4.2 6 0 0
2016 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · Oswego

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 59 employers in Oswego, 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 Romulus Division 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hood MFG 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Better Way Products Lebanon 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tigerpoly Mfg., Inc. 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Assembly 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABC Humane Wildlife Control & Prevention Inc., DBA Landmark PEst Management 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geneseo 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.A. Cullinan 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nine Mile Point (NMP) Nuclear Station 849 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3400 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3400 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oswegoland Park District 288 FTE
NAT-TCR PA-Harrisburg-Operating Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas (Txepd) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Edenton Center (Ncede) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dubuque (Iadub) 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Accent Display Corp. 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salude - The Art of Rceovery 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cei Dallas Tecta America Company 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryerson- Los Angeles 94 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: 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.