Pallet Wood Plant · Illinois

Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339

Chicago, IL · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339 runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pallet Wood Plant workplace, earning a grade D.

Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339: 5.6 TCR = 170% of Pallet Wood Plant BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339 safety composite

Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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 Central IL - Plant - 339: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 170% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #18/42
  • PHOTO NEFAB Packaging Nort…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NEFAB Packaging North East (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339 averages 5.6 TCR (170% of the Pallet Wood Plant BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339 TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=14.3 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339 falls in its industry

952 Pallet Wood Plant establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

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 42 Pallet Wood Plant employers in Illinois.

Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339 (38 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339
Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339 (38 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Chicago Central IL - Plant - 339 has fewer employees than the Pallet Wood Plant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 14.3 11.9 6 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · IL · Chicago

952 Pallet Wood Plant 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 NEFAB Packaging North East 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amware Pallet Services - West Sac 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Pallet Corp. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nashville,TN - 431 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Gibson City, IL 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 629 - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freeport 38 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 Housing and Redevelopment Authority of Duluth Minnesota 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Capitol Builders Hardware 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bristol Metals 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Carter Lumber Door Millwork Hub 389 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ironwood Plastics 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Industries Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt. Juliet 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0CR99 Foretravel of Texas Inc 38 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.