Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing · Illinois

Wastequip East St. Louis

East St. Louis, IL · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Wastequip East St. Louis runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Wastequip East St. Louis: 2.8 TCR = 86% of Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wastequip East St. Louis safety composite

Wastequip East St. Louis scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−3.5

2016→2019

Wastequip East St. Louis injury rate improved

Wastequip East St. Louis's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · East St. Louis, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/15
  • PHOTO The Champion Company
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Champion Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wastequip East St. Louis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wastequip East St. Louis averages 2.8 TCR (86% of the Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wastequip East St. Louis TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Wastequip East St. Louis falls in its industry

175 Containers, light gauge metal establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

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 15 Containers, light gauge metal employers in Illinois.

Wastequip East St. Louis (25 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wastequip East St. Louis
Wastequip East St. Louis (25 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Wastequip East St. Louis has fewer employees than the Containers, light gauge metal (except ca median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.7 0.0 1 0 1
2017 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2016 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · IL · East St. Louis

175 Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 18 employers in East St. Louis, 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 The Champion Company 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sii - Houston 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ENGY Southwest Container Products, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Confab Manufacturing Co., LLC Fontana 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Emerald Mound Lebanon Fire Department 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steve Piper and Sons, Inc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Meter Services North 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Keeley & Sons, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR T158/658 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allnex USA Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-TCR Joshua Basin Water District - Office 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR American Tubing International 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR pinewood manor nursing home 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0026 4406 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elkhart RV Group 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7641-Enphg-Holy Family University 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Faf Iad 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE ORBIS RPM - Statesville 25 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.