Inks, printing, manufacturing · Illinois

Sun Chemical - Northlake

Northlake, IL · ~219 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sun Chemical - Northlake runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Inks, printing, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Sun Chemical - Northlake: 2.0 TCR = 62% of Inks, printing, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sun Chemical - Northlake safety composite

Sun Chemical - Northlake scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

Sun Chemical - Northlake held a steady TCR band

Sun Chemical - Northlake's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.9 in 2021 to 2.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.9 · 2022=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #4/15
  • PHOTO Evansville, IN
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Evansville, IN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sun Chemical - Northlake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sun Chemical - Northlake averages 2.0 TCR (62% of the Inks, printing, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sun Chemical - Northlake TCR series: 2021=1.9 · 2022=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sun Chemical - Northlake falls in its industry

111 Inks, printing, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 58% 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 #4 safest of 15 Inks, printing, manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Sun Chemical - Northlake (219 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 - Northlake
Sun Chemical - Northlake (219 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sun Chemical - Northlake has more employees than the Inks, printing, 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
2022 2.2 1.7 5 0 0
2021 1.9 1.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · IL · Northlake

111 Inks, printing, 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 Evansville, IN 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flint Group Weyers Cave 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lebanon Flint Group 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR INX International Ink Co. (3900) 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Food Merchandising : FRANKLIN PARK 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3810 Wise Plastics Technologies 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE 99 - McCook 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE MELROSE PARK IL - 3323 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL - Northlake 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Support 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARYZTA - Northlake 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group 403 FTE
NAT-TCR Technimark LLc - Plant 2 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynbrook Restorative Therapy and Nursing 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ozark Materials LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1405 - Coronado 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marlette Homes 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE 55600 OCTA Irvine 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sharp Rees-Stealy-SD 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE GA_PortWentworth_310 219 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. 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.