Electric light fixtures merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Border States - Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~85 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Border States - Chicago runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Electric light fixtures merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Border States - Chicago: 2.4 TCR = 107% of Electric light fixtures merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Border States - Chicago safety composite

Border States - Chicago scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Border States - Chicago: 2.4 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Border States - Chicago's TCR rose 1.3 from 2.4 in 2022 to 3.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423610 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 107% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #30/49
  • PHOTO McNaughton-McKay Ele…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McNaughton-McKay Electric Company - Ohio Region - Columbus, OH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Border States - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Border States - Chicago averages 2.4 TCR (107% of the Electric light fixtures merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Border States - Chicago TCR series: 2022=2.4 · 2023=1 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Border States - Chicago falls in its industry

1,190 Electric light fixtures mercha establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 49 Electric light fixtures mercha employers in Illinois.

Border States - Chicago (85 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Border States - Chicago
Border States - Chicago (85 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Border States - Chicago has more employees than the Electric light fixtures merchant wholesa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2024 3.7 0.0 3 0 0
2023 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423610 · IL · Chicago

1,190 Electric light fixtures merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 McNaughton-McKay Electric Company - Ohio Region - Columbus, OH 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR STUSSER ELECTRIC COMPANY (PC0183) 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huntsville, AL 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6340-CAPITALTRISTATE-VA003 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Atkinson 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Utica UTI1 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monmouth, IL 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton Power Station 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Cedar Rapids Cogen 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Best Tile of Vermont 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR FedEx Supply Chain Kind Nashville 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexor Manufacturing LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE BashirBoyz LLC 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rodelle Inc 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE BAS Logistics LLC 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE KME America Marine Tube & Fitting LLC 85 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.