Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers · Illinois

ADESA - Chicago

Hoffman Estates, IL · ~119 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ADESA - Chicago runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

ADESA - Chicago: 5.9 TCR = 270% of Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ADESA - Chicago safety composite

ADESA - Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

ADESA - Chicago: 3.0 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2020

ADESA - Chicago's TCR rose 5.8 from 3.0 in 2019 to 8.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Hoffman Estates, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.9 · 270% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #50/71
  • PHOTO E.M. Tharp
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: E.M. Tharp (0.0 TCR gap)

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ADESA - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ADESA - Chicago averages 5.9 TCR (270% of the Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

ADESA - Chicago TCR series: 2019=3 · 2020=8.8 · BLS 2.2

Where ADESA - Chicago falls in its industry

1,333 Motor vehicle merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 71 Motor vehicle merchant wholesa employers in Illinois.

ADESA - Chicago (119 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ADESA - Chicago
ADESA - Chicago (119 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

ADESA - Chicago has more employees than the Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2020 8.8 4.4 6 0 0
2019 3.0 2.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · IL · Hoffman Estates

1,333 Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 88 employers in Hoffman Estates, 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 E.M. Tharp 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADESA : New Jersey 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cerni Motor Sales Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRUCK SPECIALISTS, INC. 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 119 - Archer Western de Moya JV III 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1001 - Romeoville, IL 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Sycamore 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Upland Concrete 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDK - Hoffman 1,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL009 ASCENSION HEALTH ST ALEXIUS MEDICAL CENTER 1,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL009 1,567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hoffman Estates Remote 673 FTE
NAT-TCR syncreon-Temperance 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nobles Worldwide, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 632 - San Antonio Branch - Rsg 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Sacremento 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2636-ARIZONA.OFFSITE 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sendik's Food Market Grafton 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jersey Shore Center 119 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: 2020, 2019. 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.