Chemical & allied product merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Chicago

Thorton, IL · ~17 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chemical & allied product merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Chicago: 0.9 TCR = 40% of Chemical & allied product merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago safety composite

Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 9.01× in 2024

Chicago's TCR rose 7.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 9.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Thorton, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 40% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #6/38
  • PHOTO Charlestown Plant
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Charlestown Plant (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 0.9 TCR (40% of the Chemical & allied product merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Chicago falls in its industry

766 Chemical & allied product merc establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 38 Chemical & allied product merc employers in Illinois.

Chicago (17 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago
Chicago (17 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Chicago has fewer employees than the Chemical & allied product merchant whole median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 7.8 7.8 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IL · Thorton

766 Chemical & allied product merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Charlestown Plant 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Willow Springs 0077 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresno FO 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Geismar, LA 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Neoga 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plymouth 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility - NWRWRF - Village of Fox Lake 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airoom Architect Holdings, LLC 17 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Life Science - Council Bluffs 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TCCo-CT 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Waseca MN Site 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR M&H Engineering Co., Inc. 0.9 TCR

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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.