Polystyrene resins manufacturing · Illinois

Spherotech

Lake Forest, IL · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spherotech runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Polystyrene resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Spherotech: 1.0 TCR = 29% of Polystyrene resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spherotech safety composite

Spherotech scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2019→2024

Spherotech injury rate improved

Spherotech's TCR fell 2.9 from 2.9 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Lake Forest, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/34
  • PHOTO Dart Container Polym…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dart Container Polymers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spherotech in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spherotech averages 1.0 TCR (29% of the Polystyrene resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Spherotech TCR series: 2019=2.9 · 2022=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Spherotech falls in its industry

644 Polystyrene resins manufacturi establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 34 Polystyrene resins manufacturi employers in Illinois.

Spherotech (39 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Spherotech
Spherotech (39 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Spherotech has fewer employees than the Polystyrene resins manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · IL · Lake Forest

644 Polystyrene resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 50 employers in Lake Forest, 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 Dart Container Polymers 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR COIM West Deptford 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR INEOS Neville Island Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SABIC Bay St. Louis Facility 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's El Paso 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Glen Nursery, Inc 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Joliet Generating Station 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Bloomington 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR US - Corporate : 0G01 2,455 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0G01 - CORP LAKE FOREST, IL 2,187 FTE
CITY-NEAR LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL 1,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0G11 - CORP LAKE FOREST, IL 1,044 FTE
NAT-TCR Logo Sportswear Inc - Wallingford 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Moltz Construction 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SureScan Corporation 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE New York Communications Co., Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Defender 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ferguson Fire & Fabrication Inc: TX Houston-9851 Genard Rd 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Environmental Testing and Abatement, Inc. 39 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, 2022, 2019. 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.