General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Illinois

E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS

Woodridge, IL · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS: 3.4 TCR = 153% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS safety composite

E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 93% 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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

−0.4

2017→2018

E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS injury rate improved

E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.6 in 2017 to 3.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.6 · 2018=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Woodridge, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 153% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #29/78
  • PHOTO Transportation : Ham…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transportation : Hammond - Trans (0.0 TCR gap)

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E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS averages 3.4 TCR (153% 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

E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=3.2 · BLS 2.2

Where E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #29 safest of 78 General-line groceries merchan employers in Illinois.

E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS (22 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS
E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS (22 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

E A Sween Company-Chicago SDS has fewer 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
2018 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IL · Woodridge

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 111 employers in Woodridge, 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 Transportation : Hammond - Trans 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jake's Finer Foods Houston 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CS Wholesale Grocers : Miami, FL (GDC) 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Restaurant Depot 453 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tolono Main 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anna Evergreen, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunset 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedarcrest, LLC. 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMS INDUSTRIES, Inc 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMS Mechanical Systems, Inc 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morey Corporation 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edward Don & Company-IL 471 FTE
NAT-TCR Marine Harvest Miami 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MS Electric, Inc. -JAG Division 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Belmont Ave 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Drainage Systems Inc.--Oelwein 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Infusion Partners - 1030 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Celoron B 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chandler ICF 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harris Avenue 22 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. 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.