Acid dyes, synthetic organic, manufacturing · Illinois

Solomon Colors, Inc.

Springfield, IL · ~180 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Solomon Colors, Inc. runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Acid dyes, synthetic organic, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Solomon Colors, Inc.: 2.7 TCR = 81% of Acid dyes, synthetic organic, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Solomon Colors, Inc. safety composite

Solomon Colors, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Solomon Colors, Inc.: 2.4 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2021

Solomon Colors, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.6 from 2.4 in 2020 to 2.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325130 · Springfield, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 81% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO LANXESS Corporation,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LANXESS Corporation, StarPointe (0.1 TCR gap)

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Solomon Colors, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Solomon Colors, Inc. averages 2.7 TCR (81% of the Acid dyes, synthetic organic, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Solomon Colors, Inc. TCR series: 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Solomon Colors, Inc. falls in its industry

75 Acid dyes, synthetic organic, establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #2 safest of 5 Acid dyes, synthetic organic, employers in Illinois.

Solomon Colors, Inc. (180 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Solomon Colors, Inc.
Solomon Colors, Inc. (180 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Solomon Colors, Inc. has more employees than the Acid dyes, synthetic organic, manufactur 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
2021 2.9 2.9 5 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325130 · IL · Springfield

75 Acid dyes, synthetic organic, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 311 employers in Springfield, 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 LANXESS Corporation, StarPointe 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Chemical Muskegon 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WPC Technologies 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Color Paterson 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE F.E. Moran, Inc Fire Protection of Northern Illinois 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE E&K of Chicago, Inc. 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Levy Company 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decatur West Oil Refinery 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center 4,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Memorial Hospital 3,837 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Clinic, LLP 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. John's Hospital 2,696 FTE
NAT-TCR San Antonio CSC and San Ant Hospitals 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson School Bus Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lindenwold Middle School 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Key Mechanical Oregon 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Greenville Med Campus 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE SRL 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glenwood Place Senior Living, LLC 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parc Provence 180 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: 2021, 2020. 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.