Oils, soluble (i.e., textile finishing assistants), manufacturing · Illinois

Vantage Specialty Chemicals

Gurnee, IL · ~176 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vantage Specialty Chemicals runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Oils, soluble (i.e., textile finishing assistants), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Vantage Specialty Chemicals: 2.2 TCR = 67% of Oils, soluble (i.e., textile finishing assistants), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vantage Specialty Chemicals safety composite

Vantage Specialty Chemicals scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−3.3

2020→2024

Vantage Specialty Chemicals injury rate improved

Vantage Specialty Chemicals's TCR fell 3.3 from 4.4 in 2020 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.4 · 2021=2.9 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325613 · Gurnee, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 67% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Henkel of America INC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~176 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Henkel of America INC (0.3 TCR gap)

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Vantage Specialty Chemicals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vantage Specialty Chemicals averages 2.2 TCR (67% of the Oils, soluble (i.e., textile finishing assistants), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vantage Specialty Chemicals TCR series: 2020=4.4 · 2021=2.9 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Vantage Specialty Chemicals falls in its industry

66 Oils, soluble (i.e., textile f establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Oils, soluble (i.e., textile f employers in Illinois.

Vantage Specialty Chemicals (176 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vantage Specialty Chemicals
Vantage Specialty Chemicals (176 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Vantage Specialty Chemicals has more employees than the Oils, soluble (i.e., textile finishing a median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 1.1 0.6 2 0 0
2023 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.9 1.1 5 0 0
2020 4.4 2.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325613 · IL · Gurnee

66 Oils, soluble (i.e., textile finishing assistants), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 91 employers in Gurnee, 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 Henkel of America INC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solvay USA, LLC. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apollo Chemical 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evonik Corporation 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chicago/ Rockford, IL HVAC 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA IL Chicago Plant 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE RhinoAG 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARDx Gurnee J54 2,661 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Wolf Lodge Illinois 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukegan 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1668 339 FTE
NAT-TCR Randolph Electric Membership Corporation 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Our Sunday Visitor 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Torrance Office 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR EZ Air Park 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rich Products Arlington 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accurate Building Maintenance LLC 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Knoxville Lab 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE TEAM Industries, Inc. 176 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, 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.