Paints (except artist's) manufacturing · Illinois

R.M. Lucas Co.

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

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

R.M. Lucas Co. runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paints (except artist's) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

R.M. Lucas Co.: 3.3 TCR = 100% of Paints (except artist's) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R.M. Lucas Co. safety composite

R.M. Lucas Co. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−3.5

2017→2019

R.M. Lucas Co. injury rate improved

R.M. Lucas Co.'s TCR fell 3.5 from 5.1 in 2017 to 1.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.1 · 2019=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Alsip, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 100% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #36/59
  • PHOTO Standard Paints - Main
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Standard Paints - Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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R.M. Lucas Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R.M. Lucas Co. averages 3.3 TCR (100% of the Paints (except artist's) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

R.M. Lucas Co. TCR series: 2017=5.1 · 2019=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where R.M. Lucas Co. falls in its industry

530 Paints (except artist's) manuf establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #36 safest of 59 Paints (except artist's) manuf employers in Illinois.

R.M. Lucas Co. (57 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate R.M. Lucas Co.
R.M. Lucas Co. (57 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

R.M. Lucas Co. has fewer employees than the Paints (except artist's) manufacturing 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
2019 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · IL · Alsip

530 Paints (except artist's) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 117 employers in Alsip, 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 Standard Paints - Main 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles Facility 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benda-Lutz, USA 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NPA Coatings Inc. 3.3 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 Menasha Packaging Company - Alsip 783 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1005 - Alsip 594 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alsip 388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Griffith Foods - Alsip 380 FTE
NAT-TCR San Francisco Yard 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DFNC - TRF - Thief River Falls 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Assumption College-Dining Hall 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mixing Warehouse/Shafter - 976 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tmx2205 - Marietta 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regional Zone - Taunton, MA 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rws Wi Fset R1 Kenosha 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Max & Erma's Hilliard 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: 2019, 2017. 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.