Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · Illinois

Seymour of Sycamore, Inc.

Sycamore, IL · ~154 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Seymour of Sycamore, Inc. runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Seymour of Sycamore, Inc.: 4.0 TCR = 120% of Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seymour of Sycamore, Inc. safety composite

Seymour of Sycamore, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Seymour of Sycamore, Inc.: 2.1 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2024

Seymour of Sycamore, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.2 from 2.1 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Sycamore, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 120% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #39/59
  • PHOTO The Willamette Valle…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Willamette Valley Company, LLC (Site 15) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Seymour of Sycamore, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seymour of Sycamore, Inc. averages 4.0 TCR (120% of the Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Seymour of Sycamore, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=9.8 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=2 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Seymour of Sycamore, Inc. falls in its industry

530 Architectural coatings (i.e., establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #39 safest of 59 Architectural coatings (i.e., employers in Illinois.

Seymour of Sycamore, Inc. (154 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Seymour of Sycamore, Inc.
Seymour of Sycamore, Inc. (154 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Seymour of Sycamore, Inc. has more employees than the Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) man 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
2024 5.3 5.3 9 0 0
2023 5.1 5.1 8 1 0
2022 2.8 2.2 5 0 0
2021 2.2 1.1 4 0 0
2020 2.0 1.4 3 0 0
2019 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2018 5.6 1.9 6 0 0
2017 9.8 8.0 11 0 0
2016 2.1 0.7 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · IL · Sycamore

530 Architectural coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 44 employers in Sycamore, 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 The Willamette Valley Company, LLC (Site 15) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BASF Colorbiotics 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dryvit Systems, Inc. Sand Springs 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middleton 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 118 - South Capitol Bridge Builders 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harold O'shea Builders 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peoria Corn Plant 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Gibson City 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb County Government 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient-AS-Sycamore Facility-00209 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sycamore 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Suter Company, Inc. 335 FTE
NAT-TCR Farm and Fleet of Traverse City 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Allied Waste Systems Inc. DBA Allied Waste Services of Muskegon//Republic Services of Muskegon 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Precise Fabrication 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Maui Oil Company, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cabot Canal 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anything Possible Brands 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Park Hotel 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE P&a Industries 154 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.