Bar soaps manufacturing · Illinois

Stepan Company Northbrook

Northbrook, IL · ~258 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stepan Company Northbrook runs at 1% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bar soaps manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Stepan Company Northbrook: 0.0 TCR = 1% of Bar soaps manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stepan Company Northbrook safety composite

Stepan Company Northbrook scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

Stepan Company Northbrook held a steady TCR band

Stepan Company Northbrook's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 0.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.3 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.0 · 1% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/23
  • PHOTO GOJO Plaza
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~258 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GOJO Plaza (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stepan Company Northbrook in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stepan Company Northbrook averages 0.0 TCR (1% of the Bar soaps manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Stepan Company Northbrook TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Stepan Company Northbrook falls in its industry

240 Bar soaps manufacturing establishments

Safer than 99% 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 #1 safest of 23 Bar soaps manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Stepan Company Northbrook (258 employees, TCR 0.0) 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 Stepan Company Northbrook
Stepan Company Northbrook (258 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Stepan Company Northbrook has more employees than the Bar soaps manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · IL · Northbrook

240 Bar soaps manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 122 employers in Northbrook, 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 GOJO Plaza 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colgate-Palmolive Global Technology Center 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Browns Summit Procter & Gamble 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GOJO Industries, Inc. - Plaza 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elk Grove IL Large 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Ethanol 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydro - Rosemont HQ 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penn Aluminum International LLC - Murphysboro, Il 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas Pharma US 1,228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas Pharma Global Development 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas US LLC 896 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILNOR - NORTHBROOK 780 FTE
NAT-TCR EQT Corporation - Pittsburgh 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR S01208 - Corporate Office 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR South Campus 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The STI Group Fab. Orange 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE New South Construction Company, LLC 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tampa 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Haven Subacute & Healthcare Center 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethany on 42nd 258 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.