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

WernerCo

Crystal Lake, IL · ~430 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WernerCo runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

WernerCo: 4.9 TCR = 148% of Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WernerCo safety composite

WernerCo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

WernerCo held a steady TCR band

WernerCo's TCR held near 0.1 from 5.0 in 2021 to 4.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.0 · 2022=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · Crystal Lake, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #9/15
  • PHOTO St. Francis
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~430 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. Francis (0.0 TCR gap)

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WernerCo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WernerCo averages 4.9 TCR (148% 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

WernerCo TCR series: 2021=5 · 2022=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where WernerCo falls in its industry

175 Containers, light gauge metal establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #9 safest of 15 Containers, light gauge metal employers in Illinois.

WernerCo (430 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 WernerCo
WernerCo (430 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

WernerCo has more employees than the Containers, light gauge metal (except ca median and a higher 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
2022 4.8 3.8 23 1 0
2021 5.0 3.6 26 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · IL · Crystal Lake

175 Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 101 employers in Crystal Lake, 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 St. Francis 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mauser USA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deines-Nitz Solutions 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DarPro Storage Solutions LLC 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stepan Millsdale 430 FTE
STATE-SIZE MANHEIM CHICAGO 429 FTE
STATE-SIZE 201 431 FTE
STATE-SIZE GP Transportation dba GP Transco Corporate HQ 431 FTE
CITY-NEAR McHenry County College 695 FTE
CITY-NEAR Customer Service Crystal Lake Product Center 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1413 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1413 432 FTE
NAT-TCR Revere Court of Portland 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenpoint Ag-Covington-Fertilizer Plant 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 372 - Lansing 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lunds & Byerlys, Navarre 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Luke's Miners Memorial Hospital 430 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transportation Research Center Inc. 430 FTE
NAT-SIZE S09356 - Kansas City Hauling 430 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Soules Foods Gainesville 430 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: 2022, 2021. 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.