Sodium phosphate manufacturing · Illinois

Waterway Plant

Chicago, IL · ~28 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waterway Plant runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sodium phosphate manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Waterway Plant: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Sodium phosphate manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waterway Plant safety composite

Waterway Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Waterway Plant held a steady TCR band

Waterway Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=11.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/25
  • PHOTO Madison Industries
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Madison Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waterway Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waterway Plant averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Sodium phosphate manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Waterway Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=11.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Waterway Plant falls in its industry

418 Sodium phosphate manufacturing establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 25 Sodium phosphate manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Waterway Plant (28 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Waterway Plant
Waterway Plant (28 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Waterway Plant has fewer employees than the Sodium phosphate manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 10.7 0.0 0 3 0
2021 3.5 0.0 0 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 11.5 7.7 2 1 0
2018 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · IL · Chicago

418 Sodium phosphate 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Madison Industries 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Camanche 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Usalco Fairfield Plant 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aspen Aerogel 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR WA050 Olympia Container 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR International Paper Newark Box 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Creative Community Options Inc 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Vinyl 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Modern Electric Water Company 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Metals Recycling - Somerset 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eagle Point Landfill 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Icp Industries LLC 28 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.