Hobbyists' supplies merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International

Warrenville, IL · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International runs at 273% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hobbyists' supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International: 6.0 TCR = 273% of Hobbyists' supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International safety composite

Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International: 6.7 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International's TCR rose 2.2 from 6.7 in 2019 to 8.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423920 · Warrenville, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 273% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Jake's Fireworks Pit…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jake's Fireworks Pittsburg (0.2 TCR gap)

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Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International averages 6.0 TCR (273% of the Hobbyists' supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International TCR series: 2019=6.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.9 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=8.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International falls in its industry

55 Hobbyists' supplies merchant w establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 7 Hobbyists' supplies merchant w employers in Illinois.

Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International (28 employees, TCR 6.0) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International
Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International (28 employees, TCR 6.0) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Creative Craftsmen DBA Ed Hoy's International has fewer employees than the Hobbyists' supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 8.9 0.0 2 0 0
2022 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2021 9.9 5.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.7 6.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423920 · IL · Warrenville

55 Hobbyists' supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 31 employers in Warrenville, 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 Jake's Fireworks Pittsburg 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Horizon Hobby LLC (Proline) 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Hobby York 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flat River Group VYS-1 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CIF Industries, Inc.-Staunton 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Pinckneyville- Utility Department 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Jacksonville Fire Department 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE 32571 STORE 32571 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Warrenville - Homebased 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Little Friends Inc 318 FTE
CITY-NEAR Constellation Nuclear Headquarters at Cantera 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1903 - Warrenville 263 FTE
NAT-TCR Gateway Service Center-148 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wolf Industries 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply- Brazoria 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SXF-ODFL 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quikrete - Okc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smile Surfers Kids Dentistry 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Contech Pdxmp 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fertrell Company 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.