Paints (except artist's) manufacturing · Illinois

True Value Manufacturing - Cary

Cary, IL · ~270 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

True Value Manufacturing - Cary runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paints (except artist's) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

True Value Manufacturing - Cary: 4.9 TCR = 149% of Paints (except artist's) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

True Value Manufacturing - Cary safety composite

True Value Manufacturing - Cary scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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 4.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.05 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

−3.7

2022→2023

True Value Manufacturing - Cary injury rate improved

True Value Manufacturing - Cary's TCR fell 3.7 from 6.8 in 2022 to 3.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.8 · 2023=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Cary, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 149% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #44/59
  • PHOTO APT - Advanced Polym…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~270 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: APT - Advanced Polymer Technology Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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True Value Manufacturing - Cary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows True Value Manufacturing - Cary averages 4.9 TCR (149% of the Paints (except artist's) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

True Value Manufacturing - Cary TCR series: 2022=6.8 · 2023=3 · BLS 3.3

Where True Value Manufacturing - Cary falls in its industry

530 Paints (except artist's) manuf establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #44 safest of 59 Paints (except artist's) manuf employers in Illinois.

True Value Manufacturing - Cary (270 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate True Value Manufacturing - Cary
True Value Manufacturing - Cary (270 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

True Value Manufacturing - Cary has more employees than the Paints (except artist's) 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 3.0 3.0 6 1 0
2022 6.8 6.0 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · IL · Cary

530 Paints (except artist's) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 39 employers in Cary, 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 APT - Advanced Polymer Technology Corporation 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ICP BSG APF Phoenix 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ennis-Flint Hannibal, MO 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gonnella Frozen Products 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE Proven Partners Group 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herff Jones Cap and Gowns Arcola 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEMBLEX CORPORATION 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Medical Sage Products 1,122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sage Products 906 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary School District 26 Transportation 279 FTE
NAT-TCR Onion River Cooperative, DBA City Market South End 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Wholesale Electric (PC5349) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Star Plastics 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Riggers 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clayton Giles 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huhtamaki 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE PakTech 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Straight and Narrow Inc 270 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.