Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manufacturing · Illinois

Work Area Protection - St. Charles

St. Charles, IL · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Work Area Protection - St. Charles runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Work Area Protection - St. Charles: 6.1 TCR = 185% of Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Work Area Protection - St. Charles safety composite

Work Area Protection - St. Charles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Work Area Protection - St. Charles: 5.0 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2017

Work Area Protection - St. Charles's TCR rose 2.2 from 5.0 in 2016 to 7.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · St. Charles, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #142/175
  • PHOTO Core Molding Technol…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Core Molding Technology (0.0 TCR gap)

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Work Area Protection - St. Charles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Work Area Protection - St. Charles averages 6.1 TCR (185% of the Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Work Area Protection - St. Charles TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=7.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Work Area Protection - St. Charles falls in its industry

2,838 Drums, plastics (i.e., contain establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #142 safest of 175 Drums, plastics (i.e., contain employers in Illinois.

Work Area Protection - St. Charles (28 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Work Area Protection - St. Charles
Work Area Protection - St. Charles (28 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Work Area Protection - St. Charles has fewer employees than the Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 7.2 7.2 1 0 0
2016 5.0 5.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · St. Charles

2,838 Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in St. Charles, 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 Core Molding Technology 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tedder Industries, L.L.C. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMERICAN PACIFIC PLASTIC FABRICATORS, INC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leisure Pools USA Trading Inc., Knoxville 6.1 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 Rukel Management, LLC. 607 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omron Automotive Electronics, Inc. (OEDC) 572 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility of America Corporation 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility America Corporation 439 FTE
NAT-TCR 2590 Waterpark Drive,LLC 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2035 Minot Distrib Center (Nd) 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Just Service Inc 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR New Castle (Panca) 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arizona Production Center 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0773 - Enterprise, Al 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0445 - Murrieta, Ca 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0196 - Albany, Ny 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: 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.