General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Design Pac Inc

Melrose Park, IL · ~258 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Design Pac Inc runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Design Pac Inc: 1.6 TCR = 72% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Design Pac Inc safety composite

Design Pac Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−4.0

2020→2024

Design Pac Inc injury rate improved

Design Pac Inc's TCR fell 4.0 from 4.4 in 2020 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.4 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Melrose Park, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #14/78
  • PHOTO Carolina Bottling Co…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~258 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carolina Bottling Company Greenville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Design Pac Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Design Pac Inc averages 1.6 TCR (72% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Design Pac Inc TCR series: 2020=4.4 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Design Pac Inc falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 78 General-line groceries merchan employers in Illinois.

Design Pac Inc (258 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Design Pac Inc
Design Pac Inc (258 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Design Pac Inc has more employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 5 0 0
2020 4.4 0.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IL · Melrose Park

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 96 employers in Melrose Park, 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 Carolina Bottling Company Greenville 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CS Wholesale Grocers : Beth Main 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUPERVALU DISTRIBUTION CENTER - BISMARCK 31211 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dot Foods- Dot West Offices 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elk Grove IL Large 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Ethanol 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stepan Company Northbrook 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydro - Rosemont HQ 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jewel Distribution DC 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-06651 FAC-06651-MELROSE PARK-IL 1,106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gottlieb Memorial Hospital 923 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC - Ruby Street Plant 714 FTE
NAT-TCR 22018 Chattaroy 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Young Dental 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Raleigh-Durham Embassy Suites 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR California Center for the Arts, Escondido Foundation 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Piazza Produce 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maria Joseph Manor 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Charles Hotel 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE ShopRite of Warwick 258 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, 2020. 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.