Paint and Coating Manufacturing · Illinois

USA IL Kankakee Plant

Kankakee, IL · ~180 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

USA IL Kankakee Plant runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Paint and Coating Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

USA IL Kankakee Plant: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Paint and Coating Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

USA IL Kankakee Plant safety composite

USA IL Kankakee Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

USA IL Kankakee Plant: 1.1 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2024

USA IL Kankakee Plant's TCR rose 1.9 from 1.1 in 2020 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Kankakee, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #18/59
  • PHOTO Behr Paint Company Y…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Behr Paint Company Yale MFG (0.0 TCR gap)

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USA IL Kankakee Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows USA IL Kankakee Plant averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Paint and Coating Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

USA IL Kankakee Plant TCR series: 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where USA IL Kankakee Plant falls in its industry

530 Paint and Coating Manufacturin establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #18 safest of 59 Paint and Coating Manufacturin employers in Illinois.

USA IL Kankakee Plant (180 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 USA IL Kankakee Plant
USA IL Kankakee Plant (180 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

USA IL Kankakee Plant has more employees than the Paint and Coating Manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 3.0 2.0 6 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2022 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2021 1.1 0.5 2 0 0
2020 1.1 1.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · IL · Kankakee

530 Paint and Coating Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 105 employers in Kankakee, 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 Behr Paint Company Yale MFG 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NB Coatings Inc 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jotun Paints, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rust-Oleum 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE F.E. Moran, Inc Fire Protection of Northern Illinois 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE E&K of Chicago, Inc. 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Levy Company 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decatur West Oil Refinery 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR RIVERSIDE HEALTH SYSTEM - 7240724 3,145 FTE
CITY-NEAR RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTER 2,562 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kankakee SD #111 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Presence St. Mary's Hospital Kankakee 726 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Bloomberg Skillman Cafe 100 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Lincoln Univ Plant Operations 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Vincennes Community School 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hardin County Water District No. 2-Customer Service Center 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nelson Global Products - Viroqua 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dart Logistics Services - Walnut 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henry Schein, Inc. 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Los Angeles Office 180 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.