Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stearic) manufacturing · Illinois

Vantage Oleochemicals

Name: Vantage Oleochemicals Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Chicago, IL · ~139 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Vantage Oleochemicals runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stearic) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Vantage Oleochemicals: 0.6 TCR = 19% of Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stearic) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vantage Oleochemicals safety composite

Vantage Oleochemicals scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Vantage Oleochemicals: 0.0 → 0.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2021

Vantage Oleochemicals's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 19% of ind

DART 0.7 DART
RANK #3/25
PHOTO Monument Chemical, B…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Monument Chemical, Brandenburg KY (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.7
Kemira Chemica

0.7
This site

0.6
Monument Chemi

0.6
Danisco Cedar

0.6

What this shows Vantage Oleochemicals averages 0.6 TCR (19% of the Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stearic) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Vantage Oleochemicals TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Vantage Oleochemicals falls in its industry

552 Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, o establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 25 Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, o employers in Illinois.

Vantage Oleochemicals (139 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Vantage Oleochemicals has more employees than the Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stea median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2021	0.7	0.7	1
2020	1.3	0.6	2
2017	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · IL · Chicago

552 Fatty acids (e.g., margaric, oleic, stearic) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Monument Chemical, Brandenburg KY	BRANDENBURG, KY	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Danisco Cedar Rapids	CEDAR RAPIDS, IA	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Aurorium - Greensboro	GREENSBORO, NC	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kemira Chemicals Inc.	MOBILE, AL	0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Farmer City, IL	FARMER CITY	139 FTE
STATE-SIZE	RWE Renewables Services LLC-Wind Chicago	CHICAGO	139 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Advocate construction Inc	GLENDALE HEIGHTS	139 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Althoff Industries, Inc.	CRYSTAL LAKE	139 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago Public Schools	Chicago	49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago/Corporate	Chicago	18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Illinois at Chicago	Chicago	13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University Health Service UIC UIC Campus	Chicago	12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR	Sunrise 35370	Sunrise, FL	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	TMAS	Arnold Afb, TN	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Appalachian Insulation Supply, Inc.	Elizabethtown, PA	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Union, NJ HVAC	Edison, NJ	0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	M755-M001	Denver, CO	139 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Crawford AE, LLC	Akron, OH	139 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Southern MEP, Inc.	Greenville, SC	139 FTE
NAT-SIZE	UFD - Plant	Syracuse, NY	139 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, 2017. 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.