Commercial printing (except screen, books) · Illinois

Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook

Northbrook, IL · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial printing (except screen, books) workplace, earning a grade A.

Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook: 0.9 TCR = 26% of Commercial printing (except screen, books) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook safety composite

Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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%).

Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook held a steady TCR band

Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Northbrook, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/145
  • PHOTO Premium Color Group …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Premium Color Group LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook averages 0.9 TCR (26% of the Commercial printing (except screen, books) BLS benchmark).

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

Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook falls in its industry

2,001 Commercial printing (except sc establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 145 Commercial printing (except sc employers in Illinois.

Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook (41 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook
Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook (41 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Brook and Whittle, Ltd. - Northbrook has fewer employees than the Commercial printing (except screen, book median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · IL · Northbrook

2,001 Commercial printing (except screen, books) 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 Premium Color Group LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR A-1 Screen Printing dba Underground Printing 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cenveo St. Louis 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2910 Weck 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. - Champaign Research - CMI1 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1987-Jerseyville, IL 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt. Carmel Public Utility Co. 41 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 Secord Farms LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ESI Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Readycare - Hartland 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stryker- Hyperbranch 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tri City Recycling, LLC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE GFL Environmental Grand Rapids Lowell 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pull N Save Riverside, LLC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wagner Moving & Storage 41 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.