Printing inks manufacturing · Illinois

Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group

Northlake, IL · ~403 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Printing inks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group: 1.3 TCR = 38% of Printing inks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group safety composite

Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.56× in 2017

Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · Northlake, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 38% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #2/15
  • PHOTO ATL-NAZ-ATLANTA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~403 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ATL-NAZ-ATLANTA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group averages 1.3 TCR (38% of the Printing inks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group falls in its industry

111 Printing inks manufacturing establishments

Safer than 77% 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 15 Printing inks manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group (403 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 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 05001,0001,5002,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group
Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group (403 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group has more employees than the Printing inks manufacturing median and a lower 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
2017 2.5 2.0 9 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · IL · Northlake

111 Printing inks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 56 employers in Northlake, 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 ATL-NAZ-ATLANTA 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR INX International Ink Co. (3100) 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Momar, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Ink 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Titan Electric LLC 403 FTE
STATE-SIZE OTS - Marion, IL 403 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danfoss Drives 403 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.E Niehoff & Co. 403 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL - Northlake 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Support 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARYZTA - Northlake 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago 381 FTE
NAT-TCR HydroChem LLC-BOX 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Buffalo Regional Office 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3650 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HCI02-HRO 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE CN Irvine 403 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holt Building 403 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Duyn Center 403 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1st Street Clinic 403 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.