Packaging machinery manufacturing · Illinois

Tamarack Products

Wauconda, IL · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tamarack Products runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Packaging machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Tamarack Products: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Packaging machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tamarack Products safety composite

Tamarack Products scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−0.8

2017→2019

Tamarack Products injury rate improved

Tamarack Products's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.0 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.0 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333993 · Wauconda, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #20/33
  • PHOTO IDT-Fresno
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IDT-Fresno (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tamarack Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tamarack Products averages 3.7 TCR (112% of the Packaging machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tamarack Products TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Tamarack Products falls in its industry

269 Packaging machinery manufactur establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 33 Packaging machinery manufactur employers in Illinois.

Tamarack Products (25 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Tamarack Products
Tamarack Products (25 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Tamarack Products has fewer employees than the Packaging machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2019 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2018 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2017 4.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333993 · IL · Wauconda

269 Packaging machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 46 employers in Wauconda, 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 IDT-Fresno 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kleenline Corporation 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BEVCORP FCI 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ID Technology-Oakland 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Emerald Mound Lebanon Fire Department 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steve Piper and Sons, Inc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Meter Services North 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Synergy Flavors, Inc. 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acres Group - Wauconda facility 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berger Excavating Contractors 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wauconda, IL 157 FTE
NAT-TCR Tops 279 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn Overland Park 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0016 0940 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE El Paso 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whitmore Fence Company 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE ILM-WILMINGTON 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaman Rd. ICF 25 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.