Surface active agents manufacturing · Illinois

Solvay Blue Island

Blue Island, IL · ~51 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Solvay Blue Island runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Surface active agents manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Solvay Blue Island: 1.5 TCR = 47% of Surface active agents manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Solvay Blue Island safety composite

Solvay Blue Island scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Solvay Blue Island: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Solvay Blue Island's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325613 · Blue Island, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 47% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Stepan Company
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stepan Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Solvay Blue Island in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Solvay Blue Island averages 1.5 TCR (47% of the Surface active agents manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Solvay Blue Island TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Solvay Blue Island falls in its industry

66 Surface active agents manufact establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

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 7 Surface active agents manufact employers in Illinois.

Solvay Blue Island (51 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Solvay Blue Island
Solvay Blue Island (51 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Solvay Blue Island has fewer employees than the Surface active agents manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2022 4.8 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2017 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325613 · IL · Blue Island

66 Surface active agents manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 27 employers in Blue Island, 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 Stepan Company 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solvay USA Inc., Baltimore Plant 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kensing - Kankakee 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lubrizol Advanced Materials Inc Bowling Green 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Larch Farm 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDG 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prince Minerals LLC - QUI 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Quincy 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR MetroSouth Medical Center 853 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elementary School 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR 130-Chicago South 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Magnesium Casting Company 117 FTE
NAT-TCR Sikes Concrete Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR S07556 - Gasmer Drive MRF 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmi Electrical Contractors Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HEM Fombell 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Florida Suites 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riley Gear South 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE UW Arizona 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE MPP San Diego 51 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.