Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream

Carol Stream, IL · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream runs at 359% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream: 7.9 TCR = 359% of Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream safety composite

Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−16.6

2016→2018

Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream injury rate improved

Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream's TCR fell 16.6 from 18.9 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 18.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=18.9 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Carol Stream, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 359% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/14
  • PHOTO Synergy Equipment No…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Synergy Equipment North Fort Myers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream averages 7.9 TCR (359% of the Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream TCR series: 2016=18.9 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=2.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream falls in its industry

533 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 14 Construction machinery and equ employers in Illinois.

Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream (40 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream
Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream (40 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream has more employees than the Construction machinery and equipment mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2016 18.9 5.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · IL · Carol Stream

533 Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 170 employers in Carol Stream, 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 Synergy Equipment North Fort Myers 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aring - Depere 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BMC-Devils Lake 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR McClung-Logan Manassas Branch 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Integrity Management 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Bloomington Reporting Center 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Downers Grove Sanitary District 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Window Works Addison 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group 2,151 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Litho, Inc. 1,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161275-CAROL STREAM IL P&DC 960 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods - Carol Stream 853 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5182 Simpsonville, S 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-PHL-PHILADELPHIA-PD 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Myrtle Creek D/C #094 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor (Mitay) 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Nebraska Medicine- Bellevue- E 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Husqvarna Forestry Products N.A. Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Cobb Office & Operating - 1040 Lake Dr. Marietta 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5172 40 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: 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.