Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

43121a - Chicago South Zone

Oak Forest, IL · ~113 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

43121a - Chicago South Zone runs at 274% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

43121a - Chicago South Zone: 6.0 TCR = 274% of Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

43121a - Chicago South Zone safety composite

43121a - Chicago South Zone scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

43121a - Chicago South Zone: 4.7 → 14.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.48× in 2021

43121a - Chicago South Zone's TCR rose 10.2 from 4.7 in 2016 to 14.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Oak Forest, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 274% of ind

  • DART 14.9 DART
  • RANK #27/32
  • PHOTO 42341C - WAYNE DC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 42341C - WAYNE DC (0.0 TCR gap)

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43121a - Chicago South Zone in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 43121a - Chicago South Zone averages 6.0 TCR (274% of the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

43121a - Chicago South Zone TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=12.5 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=14.9 · BLS 2.2

Where 43121a - Chicago South Zone falls in its industry

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 32 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa employers in Illinois.

43121a - Chicago South Zone (113 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 43121a - Chicago South Zone
43121a - Chicago South Zone (113 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

43121a - Chicago South Zone has more employees than the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2021 14.9 14.9 14 0 0
2020 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2018 12.5 2.2 17 0 0
2017 1.5 0.7 2 0 0
2016 4.7 3.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · IL · Oak Forest

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 26 employers in Oak Forest, 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 42341C - WAYNE DC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CC 49851 SAN DIEGO MEGA FAC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 43561 - TULSA ZONE 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 44889 - ATLANTA NE FAC. 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rock Island Service Building 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Four Rivers Sanitation Authority 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graycor Construction Company Inc. 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bennett & Brosseau Roofing, Inc. 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR OAK FOREST 765 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARBOR - ARBOR PARK SD 145 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legendary Baking Oak Forest 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003163 186 FTE
NAT-TCR LaClare Family Creamery, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pitigliano Farm Services, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Flowers Baking of Norfolk 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sierra Rehabilitation and Care Community 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE NYSEG Lancaster 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6975-1L16 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Providence RI FXFE-PVD 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE CTS St. Louis 113 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: 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.