Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · Illinois

Rust-Oleum

Vernon Hills, IL · ~580 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rust-Oleum runs at 6% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Rust-Oleum: 0.2 TCR = 6% of Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rust-Oleum safety composite

Rust-Oleum scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% 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

−0.4

2022→2024

Rust-Oleum injury rate improved

Rust-Oleum's TCR fell 0.4 from 0.4 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Vernon Hills, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 6% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/59
  • PHOTO Colormatrix Berea
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~580 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Colormatrix Berea (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rust-Oleum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rust-Oleum averages 0.2 TCR (6% of the Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rust-Oleum TCR series: 2022=0.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Rust-Oleum falls in its industry

530 Industrial product finishes an establishments

Safer than 100% 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 #1 safest of 59 Industrial product finishes an employers in Illinois.

Rust-Oleum (580 employees, TCR 0.2) 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rust-Oleum
Rust-Oleum (580 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Rust-Oleum has more employees than the Industrial product finishes and coatings median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.4 0.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · IL · Vernon Hills

530 Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 65 employers in Vernon Hills, 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 Colormatrix Berea 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Troy ATC Coatings 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR US KY Bowling Green Plant 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Akzo Nobel Vehicle Refinishes 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hollister Incorporated Libertyville 580 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechanical Incorporated 579 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heating and Air Conditioning 581 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Chicago 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Hills 1,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Hills, IL - BCU 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Vernon Hills 375 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. 363 FTE
NAT-TCR Sovereign Consulting, Inc 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Location 19019 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mechanical Systems Inc 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ChampionX Sugar Land 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bioventus, LLC Durham 580 FTE
NAT-SIZE Facility Services Management, Inc. 580 FTE
NAT-SIZE Karl Chevrolet, Inc. 580 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodfin Heating Inc. 580 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.