Pallet Wood Plant · Illinois

Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315

Lockport (Chicago), IL · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315 runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pallet Wood Plant workplace, earning a grade D.

Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Pallet Wood Plant BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315 safety composite

Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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 (Lockport) IL - 315: 3.8 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2023

Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315's TCR rose 0.5 from 3.8 in 2022 to 4.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Lockport (Chicago), IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #13/42
  • PHOTO Appalachian Pallet &…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Appalachian Pallet & Precut (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315 averages 4.0 TCR (122% 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 (Lockport) IL - 315 TCR series: 2022=3.8 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315 falls in its industry

952 Pallet Wood Plant establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #13 safest of 42 Pallet Wood Plant employers in Illinois.

Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315 (53 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 (Lockport) IL - 315
Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315 (53 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315 has more 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
2023 4.3 2.1 2 0 0
2022 3.8 3.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · IL · Lockport (Chicago)

952 Pallet Wood Plant employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 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 Appalachian Pallet & Precut 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millwood, Inc. Hamilton 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwood Pallet LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson,MS - 239 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flamm Orchards Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Princeton IL Research-PRI2 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2505-Mason City, IL 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie State Generating Company - Corporate Office 53 FTE
NAT-TCR M&M Transport - Chambersburg Operations 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlisle Pa Plant 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Fraser - Russellville Mill 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Scholten Roofing, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Davidson'S Organic Tea 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Chenal Heights 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Divine House Inc. - Hutchinson 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Knoxville TN Yard (West) 53 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: 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.