Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing · Illinois

Shire Round Lake

Round Lake, IL · ~244 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shire Round Lake runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Shire Round Lake: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shire Round Lake safety composite

Shire Round Lake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Shire Round Lake: 1.4 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2018

Shire Round Lake's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.4 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325412 · Round Lake, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #21/31
  • PHOTO Johnson Matthey Heal…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~244 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Johnson Matthey Health -WD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shire Round Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shire Round Lake averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shire Round Lake TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Shire Round Lake falls in its industry

855 Pharmaceutical preparations (e establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 31 Pharmaceutical preparations (e employers in Illinois.

Shire Round Lake (244 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Shire Round Lake
Shire Round Lake (244 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Shire Round Lake has more employees than the Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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
2018 2.1 2.1 7 0 0
2017 2.3 1.9 6 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325412 · IL · Round Lake

855 Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 20 employers in Round Lake, 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 Johnson Matthey Health -WD 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1324 Motor Parkway 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belcher Pharmaceuticals, LLC - 6911 Facility 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR OrganiCare 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Exelon Nuclear Headquarters at Cantera 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Home Run Inn Frozen Foods 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nu-Way Industries, Inc 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10568 Chicago Edgewater 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roundlake R&D 1,286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baxter/ Round Lake R & D 975 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roundlake, IL -Nationwide Sales Personnel 762 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baxter Healthcare - Round Lake Drug Delivery 549 FTE
NAT-TCR Midland Tool & Supply 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR KBS, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Infusion Partners - 1036 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Harlingen Service Center 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crown Equipment Corporation NC 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regal Power Transmission Solutions 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penco Products Inc 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lancaster Marriott 244 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: 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.