Profile shapes (e.g., plate, rod, sheet), laminated plastics, manufacturing · Illinois

Tangent - Poplar

North Aurora, IL · ~55 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tangent - Poplar runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Profile shapes (e.g., plate, rod, sheet), laminated plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Tangent - Poplar: 4.5 TCR = 136% of Profile shapes (e.g., plate, rod, sheet), laminated plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tangent - Poplar safety composite

Tangent - Poplar scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Tangent - Poplar: 4.7 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2021

Tangent - Poplar's TCR rose 1.9 from 4.7 in 2018 to 6.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326130 · North Aurora, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO Cedarburg
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cedarburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tangent - Poplar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tangent - Poplar averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Profile shapes (e.g., plate, rod, sheet), laminated plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tangent - Poplar TCR series: 2018=4.7 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=6.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Tangent - Poplar falls in its industry

160 Profile shapes (e.g., plate, r establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 10 Profile shapes (e.g., plate, r employers in Illinois.

Tangent - Poplar (55 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tangent - Poplar
Tangent - Poplar (55 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Tangent - Poplar has fewer employees than the Profile shapes (e.g., plate, rod, sheet) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 6.6 3.9 5 0 0
2020 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2018 4.7 4.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326130 · IL · North Aurora

160 Profile shapes (e.g., plate, rod, sheet), laminated plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 36 employers in North Aurora, 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 Cedarburg 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PORT Plastics, DBA Lehigh Valley Plastics 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spaulding Composites 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haysite Reinforced Plastics 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0G6 - Gas Storage 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE BS&T Construction 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOSCO Construction Services, Inc 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora Packing Company 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Container North Aurora 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oberweis Dairy - Corp Office 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodmans Food Market North Aurora 35 204 FTE
NAT-TCR AmeriTex Machine & Fab, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR BAL 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Nvacc - Scs - Reno - Merck 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 422-DC005-0006 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate, Sales & Plant establishment 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Recology Sonoma Marin - Petaluma Dynamic 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE DoubleTree Columbus 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stevens Point Hospice 55 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: 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.