Commercial stationery supplies merchant wholesalers · Illinois

DC35-Chicago

Batavia, IL · ~41 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DC35-Chicago runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial stationery supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

DC35-Chicago: 5.0 TCR = 226% of Commercial stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DC35-Chicago safety composite

DC35-Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2023→2024

DC35-Chicago injury rate improved

DC35-Chicago's TCR fell 4.8 from 7.4 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.4 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424120 · Batavia, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 226% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO SP Richards Co Mira …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SP Richards Co Mira Loma CA. (0.1 TCR gap)

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DC35-Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DC35-Chicago averages 5.0 TCR (226% of the Commercial stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

DC35-Chicago TCR series: 2023=7.4 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 2.2

Where DC35-Chicago falls in its industry

87 Commercial stationery supplies establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Commercial stationery supplies employers in Illinois.

DC35-Chicago (41 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05,00010,00015,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate DC35-Chicago
DC35-Chicago (41 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3

DC35-Chicago has fewer employees than the Commercial stationery supplies merchant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 7.4 7.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424120 · IL · Batavia

87 Commercial stationery supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 119 employers in Batavia, 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 SP Richards Co Mira Loma CA. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SP Richards 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essendant: Nashville OE 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Punch Studio, LLC - Figueroa Warehouse 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. - Champaign Research - CMI1 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1987-Jerseyville, IL 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt. Carmel Public Utility Co. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1 Bat1000 1,146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Batavia Ofc/Whse 780 FTE
CITY-NEAR MSI Express - Batavia 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR PPI Batavia PKG 500 FTE
NAT-TCR Vafro - Front Royal 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amherst 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Round Rock 10532 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Transportation 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hearth & Home of Vandalia 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Camisasca Automotive Manufacturing, Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Board of County Supervisors 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agency on Aging 41 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.