Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing · Illinois

Zip-Pak Ottawa

Ottawa, IL · ~76 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zip-Pak Ottawa runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Zip-Pak Ottawa: 3.6 TCR = 108% of Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zip-Pak Ottawa safety composite

Zip-Pak Ottawa scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Zip-Pak Ottawa: 2.3 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2024

Zip-Pak Ottawa's TCR rose 2.9 from 2.3 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326112 · Ottawa, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 108% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #26/35
  • PHOTO Glenroy, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Glenroy, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zip-Pak Ottawa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zip-Pak Ottawa averages 3.6 TCR (108% of the Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Zip-Pak Ottawa TCR series: 2017=2.3 · 2018=3.4 · 2020=3.3 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Zip-Pak Ottawa falls in its industry

396 Film, plastics, packaging, man establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 35 Film, plastics, packaging, man employers in Illinois.

Zip-Pak Ottawa (76 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Zip-Pak Ottawa
Zip-Pak Ottawa (76 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Zip-Pak Ottawa has fewer employees than the Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 5.2 5.2 4 0 0
2020 3.3 3.3 3 0 0
2018 3.4 1.1 3 0 0
2017 2.3 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326112 · IL · Ottawa

396 Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 67 employers in Ottawa, 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 Glenroy, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PPC Flexible Packaging 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Packaging Products Corporation LLC - Mission 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zip-Pak Atlanta 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rend Lake Conservancy District 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE CORE Construction Services of Illinois, Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville Headquarters 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keeley & Sons, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 624 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaSalle County 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00000036 0036 OTTAWA DC 415 FTE
NAT-TCR Carolina Precision Technologies, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 8582 - Hwy 90 @ Azalea D 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Riviana Foods 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dynojet Research NV 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Sheet Metal Inc 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Professional Roofing Services 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exactech, Inc 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cowen Truck Line Inc 76 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, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.