Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Bulldog Cartage

Addison, IL · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bulldog Cartage runs at 496% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Bulldog Cartage: 10.9 TCR = 496% of Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bulldog Cartage safety composite

Bulldog Cartage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−1.7

2023→2024

Bulldog Cartage injury rate improved

Bulldog Cartage's TCR fell 1.7 from 11.8 in 2023 to 10.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=11.8 · 2024=10.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · Addison, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 496% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #18/19
  • PHOTO Caleffi North Americ…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Caleffi North America Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bulldog Cartage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bulldog Cartage averages 10.9 TCR (496% of the Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Bulldog Cartage TCR series: 2023=11.8 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Bulldog Cartage falls in its industry

853 Plumbing and heating valves me establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 19 Plumbing and heating valves me employers in Illinois.

Bulldog Cartage (28 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bulldog Cartage
Bulldog Cartage (28 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Bulldog Cartage has fewer employees than the Plumbing and heating valves merchant who median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2024 10.1 6.7 3 0 0
2023 11.8 11.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · IL · Addison

853 Plumbing and heating valves merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 161 employers in Addison, 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 Caleffi North America Incorporated 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TX San Antonio-835 North W. W. White Road 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1004 - Fort Worth 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate Headquaters 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILADD - ADDISON A BUILDING 2,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADDISON A BUILDING (ILADD) 2,078 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mondelez Global Central/West Sales 1,164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arjo Inc. 727 FTE
NAT-TCR 206 Avon 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Copiague 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Arc, Inc. 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Chisholm Elementary 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Masonry Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Powers Built Structures 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Griffin Beverage CO Marquette 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE EDM, Inc 28 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. 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.