Castable refractories, nonclay, manufacturing · Illinois

Vesuvius - Champaign

Champaign, IL · ~143 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vesuvius - Champaign runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Castable refractories, nonclay, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Vesuvius - Champaign: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Castable refractories, nonclay, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vesuvius - Champaign safety composite

Vesuvius - Champaign scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

Vesuvius - Champaign held a steady TCR band

Vesuvius - Champaign's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.7 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.7 · 2017=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Champaign, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO 901 S 3rd Street & 4…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 901 S 3rd Street & 4505 Prosperity Drive (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vesuvius - Champaign in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vesuvius - Champaign averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Castable refractories, nonclay, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vesuvius - Champaign TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Vesuvius - Champaign falls in its industry

307 Castable refractories, nonclay establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 8 Castable refractories, nonclay employers in Illinois.

Vesuvius - Champaign (143 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vesuvius - Champaign
Vesuvius - Champaign (143 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Vesuvius - Champaign has more employees than the Castable refractories, nonclay, manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2017 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2016 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · IL · Champaign

307 Castable refractories, nonclay, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 200 employers in Champaign, 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 901 S 3rd Street & 4505 Prosperity Drive 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgan Advanced Materials 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DAL-ITALIA LLC 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Halverson Construction Company 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quincy Oil Extraction 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus Vegetable Oils 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-CHAM 1,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz Company 1,088 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz Champaign 918 FTE
CITY-NEAR College Fresh 840 FTE
NAT-TCR Avanti Wind Systems, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MS - MCAS Yuma, AZ - 1YUAZ 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR LESMMOAH 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Novus Medical Detox of Pasco County, LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Springfield West LLC 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Timberland LLC 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herndon Farms 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center 143 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: 2017, 2016. 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.