Paint and Coating Manufacturing · Illinois

USA IL Wheeling Plant

Wheeling, IL · ~128 workers · 5 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

USA IL Wheeling Plant runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paint and Coating Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

USA IL Wheeling Plant: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Paint and Coating Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

USA IL Wheeling Plant safety composite

USA IL Wheeling Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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 Wheeling Plant: 2.2 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

USA IL Wheeling Plant's TCR rose 0.5 from 2.2 in 2020 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #34/59
  • PHOTO Ryvec
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ryvec (0.0 TCR gap)

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USA IL Wheeling Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows USA IL Wheeling Plant averages 3.0 TCR (92% 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 Wheeling Plant TCR series: 2020=2.2 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where USA IL Wheeling Plant falls in its industry

530 Paint and Coating Manufacturin establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #34 safest of 59 Paint and Coating Manufacturin employers in Illinois.

USA IL Wheeling Plant (128 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Wheeling Plant
USA IL Wheeling Plant (128 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

USA IL Wheeling Plant has more employees than the Paint and Coating 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
2024 2.7 2.7 3 0 0
2023 4.1 1.6 5 0 0
2022 4.8 3.4 7 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2020 2.2 2.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · IL · Wheeling

530 Paint and Coating Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 136 employers in Wheeling, 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 Ryvec 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lafayette Worwag 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Troy Chemical Corporation 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NIC Industries, Inc. 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Orsted - Chicago 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Illinois - Salem 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Howell Paving, Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arrow Road 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL-01 4,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeling School District 21 967 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office - 01 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Response Team 1 728 FTE
NAT-TCR Norwex 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Far West Contractors Corp 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Princeton Market Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Castone Corporation 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE M. Price Distributing Company 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE EI102 - Central Region Headquarters 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Proctor Senior High 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE K-Tube Technologies 128 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.