Cheese merchant wholesalers · Illinois

C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc.

Niles, IL · ~35 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc. runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc.: 1.1 TCR = 50% of Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc. safety composite

C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.0

2020→2024

C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc. injury rate improved

C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc.'s TCR fell 3.0 from 3.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Niles, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.1 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO DFA DISTRIBUTING WES…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - SAN DIEGO CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc. averages 1.1 TCR (50% of the Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc. TCR series: 2020=3 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc. falls in its industry

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers in Illinois.

C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc. (35 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc.
C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc. (35 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Cheese merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · IL · Niles

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 111 employers in Niles, 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 DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - SAN DIEGO CA 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR US SF Baltimore/Washington 485 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Retail Sales US SF Columbus 496 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 465 US SF North Florida 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dynegy Kendall Energy LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.J.M. Electric Cooperative, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Beloit Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPage Water Commission 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aerospace Business Groups : Niles 1,010 FTE
CITY-NEAR Airframe Systems : Niles 978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shure Incorporated 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3320 683 FTE
NAT-TCR SRC Logistics Inc - Mulroy 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR National Distribution Centers LLC-16045 Mountain Ave 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4201 - Miami, FL 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Show Low AZ Yard 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Royal Construction, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maryland West 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Distribution Centers LLC-179 SOUTH GRAND AVE 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Station #2 35 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, 2021, 2020. 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.