Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

43161b - Wauconda Bin

Wauconda, IL · ~43 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

43161b - Wauconda Bin runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

43161b - Wauconda Bin: 1.8 TCR = 81% of Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

43161b - Wauconda Bin safety composite

43161b - Wauconda Bin scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2016→2021

43161b - Wauconda Bin injury rate improved

43161b - Wauconda Bin's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.9 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Wauconda, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 81% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/32
  • PHOTO 43211L - FARGO
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 43211L - FARGO (0.0 TCR gap)

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43161b - Wauconda Bin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 43161b - Wauconda Bin averages 1.8 TCR (81% of the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

43161b - Wauconda Bin TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where 43161b - Wauconda Bin falls in its industry

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 73% 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 #11 safest of 32 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa employers in Illinois.

43161b - Wauconda Bin (43 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 43161b - Wauconda Bin
43161b - Wauconda Bin (43 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

43161b - Wauconda Bin has fewer employees than the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers median and a lower 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 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2018 4.2 0.0 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · IL · Wauconda

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 46 employers in Wauconda, 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 43211L - FARGO 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 49411A - EL CENTRO BIN 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 42241F - MT PLEASANT 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 49241E - SACRAMENTO TRAD SALES 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stratum Reservoir, LLC - Champaign 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - East St. Louis 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manlove Storage Field 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Synergy Flavors, Inc. 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acres Group - Wauconda facility 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berger Excavating Contractors 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wauconda, IL 157 FTE
NAT-TCR 43211l - Fargo 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 49411a - El Centro Bin 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Harris Arizona Rebar - Phoenix 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Plains Dairy LLP 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 49241a - Fairfield Dc 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE 44561s - Wilmington Bin 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hans' Freightliner of Cleveland 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centrifugal Technologies, Inc 43 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.