Inks, printing, manufacturing · Illinois

Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg

Chicago, IL · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Inks, printing, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg: 3.5 TCR = 105% of Inks, printing, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg safety composite

Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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 Rycoline Mfg: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO Apollo Colors Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Apollo Colors Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg averages 3.5 TCR (105% 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 Rycoline Mfg TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg falls in its industry

111 Inks, printing, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #10 safest of 15 Inks, printing, manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg (22 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Rycoline Mfg
Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg (22 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sun Chemical Rycoline Mfg has fewer employees than the Inks, printing, manufacturing median and a higher 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
2018 5.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · IL · Chicago

111 Inks, printing, 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 Apollo Colors Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunChemical Grand Prairie 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rogers NW Flint Group 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hutchinson 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tolono Main 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anna Evergreen, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunset 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedarcrest, LLC. 22 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 Shopko Store #114 (Duluth, MN) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #19 (Watertown, WI) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #8 (Rothschild, WI) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Barber - Birmingham 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE DPW Administration & Streets 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reading Electric Motor Service Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Spencer Companies, Inc., Corporate Office 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Klein-Dickert Co., Inc. - Madison 22 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.