Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

Chicago

Carol Stream, IL · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Chicago: 1.3 TCR = 60% of Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago safety composite

Chicago scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Chicago: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Chicago's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 4.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Carol Stream, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/28
  • PHOTO Applied MSS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Applied MSS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago averages 1.3 TCR (60% of the Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4 · BLS 2.2

Where Chicago falls in its industry

589 Industrial Supplies Merchant W establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 28 Industrial Supplies Merchant W employers in Illinois.

Chicago (28 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago
Chicago (28 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Chicago has fewer employees than the Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2021 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · IL · Carol Stream

589 Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 170 employers in Carol Stream, 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 Applied MSS 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mahar Tool Supply Company Inc - Saginaw 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SouthernCarlson - Kansas City MO 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KIT Rockford 1.3 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 Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group 2,151 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Litho, Inc. 1,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161275-CAROL STREAM IL P&DC 960 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods - Carol Stream 853 FTE
NAT-TCR Onyx Restoration 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cook Medical LLC AmerSC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4765-JANCX0UPS 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Louisiana Lift and Equipment, INC 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE HTC Freeport 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Envise Mid-Atlantic 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sherman St Phoenix 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giles County Cooperative - Pulaski 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: 2021, 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.