Bottles, plastics, manufacturing · Illinois

Plastipak- West Chicago

West Chicago, IL · ~73 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plastipak- West Chicago runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bottles, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Plastipak- West Chicago: 1.5 TCR = 44% of Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plastipak- West Chicago safety composite

Plastipak- West Chicago scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−2.7

2016→2020

Plastipak- West Chicago injury rate improved

Plastipak- West Chicago's TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326160 · West Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/34
  • PHOTO 670 PET
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 670 PET (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plastipak- West Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plastipak- West Chicago averages 1.5 TCR (44% of the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plastipak- West Chicago TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Plastipak- West Chicago falls in its industry

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 34 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi employers in Illinois.

Plastipak- West Chicago (73 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 Plastipak- West Chicago
Plastipak- West Chicago (73 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Plastipak- West Chicago has fewer employees than the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.6 3.5 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.7 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326160 · IL · West Chicago

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West Chicago, 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 670 PET 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Altium Packaging - Carson 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mold-Rite Plastics Somerset 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amcor Addison IL 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE SouthEastern Illinois Electric Cooperative 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Tech - Operations 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Civil Constructors Inc Moline Structures Divison 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Standard Sheet Metal Works, Inc 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR OMNOVA Solutions - Fitchburg, MA 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mountain Home, AR 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland - BMG 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Goldin & Stafford, Inc. Job Site 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cabot Corporation - Pryor 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bristol Precast-Charlestown 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE KC Jones Plating 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forest Lake Chevrolet Cadillac 73 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.