Wholesale Building Products · Georgia

BlueLinx Corporation Chicago

University Park, GA · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BlueLinx Corporation Chicago runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wholesale Building Products workplace, earning a grade D.

BlueLinx Corporation Chicago: 3.8 TCR = 170% of Wholesale Building Products BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BlueLinx Corporation Chicago safety composite

BlueLinx Corporation Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

BlueLinx Corporation Chicago held a steady TCR band

BlueLinx Corporation Chicago's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.7 in 2019 to 3.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.7 · 2020=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · University Park, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 170% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #32/69
  • PHOTO Thermal Design Madis…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thermal Design Madison Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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BlueLinx Corporation Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BlueLinx Corporation Chicago averages 3.8 TCR (170% of the Wholesale Building Products BLS benchmark).

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

BlueLinx Corporation Chicago TCR series: 2019=3.7 · 2020=3.8 · BLS 2.2

Where BlueLinx Corporation Chicago falls in its industry

1,225 Wholesale Building Products establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 69 Wholesale Building Products employers in Georgia.

BlueLinx Corporation Chicago (49 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 020406080100120 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate BlueLinx Corporation Chicago
BlueLinx Corporation Chicago (49 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

BlueLinx Corporation Chicago has more employees than the Wholesale Building Products median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 3.8 3.8 2 0 0
2019 3.7 3.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · GA · University Park

1,225 Wholesale Building Products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 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 Thermal Design Madison Main 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amerhart Ltd. - Sun Prairie 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4103 WINSTON SALEM 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4146 SOUTH CAROLINA MILLWORK 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE IRWIN ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Klondike Training Center - 4826 Klondike Rd. Lithonia 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rome Business Office - 800 Broad St. Rome 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norsouth Construction Company of GA, Inc 49 FTE
NAT-TCR Decatur 446 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0241 - Ext. Doors-Sulphur Springs 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 560 Jackson, Ms 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cypress Hospice, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Txfort-Opi-Fort Worth-Lancaster 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ncmilt-Opi-Charlotte-Milton Road 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harvey Bancroft Building 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rock Hill 130 49 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.