Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

43161a - Northbrook Zone

Northbrook, IL · ~101 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

43161a - Northbrook Zone runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

43161a - Northbrook Zone: 3.1 TCR = 142% of Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

43161a - Northbrook Zone safety composite

43161a - Northbrook Zone scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

43161a - Northbrook Zone: 0.7 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2021

43161a - Northbrook Zone's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.7 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Northbrook, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 142% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #18/32
  • PHOTO 49885 - LAMIRADA CA …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 49885 - LAMIRADA CA FAC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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43161a - Northbrook Zone in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 43161a - Northbrook Zone averages 3.1 TCR (142% of the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

43161a - Northbrook Zone TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=3.1 · BLS 2.2

Where 43161a - Northbrook Zone falls in its industry

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #18 safest of 32 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa employers in Illinois.

43161a - Northbrook Zone (101 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 43161a - Northbrook Zone
43161a - Northbrook Zone (101 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

43161a - Northbrook 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 3.1 1.5 4 0 0
2020 1.8 0.9 2 0 0
2019 5.1 4.2 6 0 0
2018 6.4 1.8 7 0 0
2017 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2016 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · IL · Northbrook

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 122 employers in Northbrook, 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 49885 - LAMIRADA CA FAC. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLYMOUTH EmpWorkCtrCd 30000887 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 42251A - BATTLE CREEK 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 43281D - CEDAR RAPIDS 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Gas Ops 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE DGIL 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brandt Construction Co. 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE MS - Mossville, IL - 1MOI2 (CATERPILLAR COE) 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas Pharma US 1,228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas Pharma Global Development 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas US LLC 896 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILNOR - NORTHBROOK 780 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakeville Growers-Ranch 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Marietta Terminal - DOT 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascade Builders Corporation 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-WIAPP004 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CommScope Technologies LLC (Ashburn, VA) 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harris Rebar - Hawaii 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hopkins Printing 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brownfield 101 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.