Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing · Illinois

Southside Soapbox

Chicago, IL · ~156 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southside Soapbox runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Southside Soapbox: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southside Soapbox safety composite

Southside Soapbox scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Southside Soapbox: 0.8 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.81× in 2019

Southside Soapbox's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.8 in 2017 to 6.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #12/23
  • PHOTO ECP-Woodridge
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ECP-Woodridge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southside Soapbox in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southside Soapbox averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southside Soapbox TCR series: 2017=0.8 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Southside Soapbox falls in its industry

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 23 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid employers in Illinois.

Southside Soapbox (156 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 Southside Soapbox
Southside Soapbox (156 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Southside Soapbox has more employees than the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2019 6.0 4.4 10 1 0
2018 0.4 0.4 2 0 0
2017 0.8 0.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · IL · Chicago

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 ECP-Woodridge 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oratech Large Manufacturing B2 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wholesale Supplies Plus 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ecolab - McDonough 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Merit Contractors, LLC 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Plastic Corporation, Inc. 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Permobil/Roho 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Truck Shop 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rust-Oleum Newark 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Bear Transportation 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aurora Senior Living of Manokin LLC 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transmission Op Center New Albany 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 27 Enterprise Drive 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9605 SW Nimbus Ave 156 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.