Printing inks manufacturing · Illinois

Sun Chemical St. Charles

St. Charles, IL · ~86 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sun Chemical St. Charles runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Printing inks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sun Chemical St. Charles: 3.0 TCR = 91% of Printing inks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sun Chemical St. Charles safety composite

Sun Chemical St. Charles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.1

2016→2023

Sun Chemical St. Charles injury rate improved

Sun Chemical St. Charles's TCR fell 2.1 from 4.8 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.8 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · St. Charles, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #7/15
  • PHOTO INX International In…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: INX International Ink Co. (5900) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sun Chemical St. Charles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sun Chemical St. Charles averages 3.0 TCR (91% 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 St. Charles TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Sun Chemical St. Charles falls in its industry

111 Printing inks manufacturing establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #7 safest of 15 Printing inks manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Sun Chemical St. Charles (86 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 St. Charles
Sun Chemical St. Charles (86 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sun Chemical St. Charles has more employees than the Printing inks 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
2023 2.8 2.8 1 1 0
2022 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2021 3.5 2.4 3 0 0
2020 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2019 3.4 3.4 3 0 0
2018 3.2 0.0 3 0 0
2017 2.5 0.0 1 1 0
2016 4.8 4.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · IL · St. Charles

111 Printing inks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in St. Charles, 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 INX International Ink Co. (5900) 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LioChem, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diagraph MSP 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Chemical Kankakee 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Germantown Egg Farm 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience PRI1 Princeton,IL 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Gas Company 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Homeway Homes Facility 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rukel Management, LLC. 607 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omron Automotive Electronics, Inc. (OEDC) 572 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility of America Corporation 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility America Corporation 439 FTE
NAT-TCR Plant 42 Bentonville 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR M & B Asphalt Co., Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Garrett Metal Detectors 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Warren Controls 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. John the Baptist Church & School 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mk North America, Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westminster Pet 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAG USA Inc. 86 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.