Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins · Illinois

Poplar

North Aurora, IL · ~57 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Poplar runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade C.

Poplar: 3.0 TCR = 89% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Poplar safety composite

Poplar scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−5.9

2022→2023

Poplar injury rate improved

Poplar's TCR fell 5.9 from 5.9 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.9 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · North Aurora, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO Avient Colorants USA…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avient Colorants USA LLC - Lewiston (0.0 TCR gap)

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Poplar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Poplar averages 3.0 TCR (89% of the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS benchmark).

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

Poplar TCR series: 2022=5.9 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Poplar falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 18 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Illinois.

Poplar (57 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Poplar
Poplar (57 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Poplar has fewer employees than the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.9 3.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · IL · North Aurora

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 36 employers in North Aurora, 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 Avient Colorants USA LLC - Lewiston 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GSDI Specialty Dispersions Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avient Minneapolis 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Molding Products LLC 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Concrete, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centennial Contractors of the Quad Cities, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Carpentry, Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora Packing Company 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Container North Aurora 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oberweis Dairy - Corp Office 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodmans Food Market North Aurora 35 204 FTE
NAT-TCR EcoFoam USA 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Smoking Pipes Com 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Byrkit St 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kmi North Branch 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE LCS Florence LLC 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE BT Anchorage 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Live Turkey - Dayton VA Hatchery 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kay Polymer Trucking Inc. 57 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: 2023, 2022. 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.