General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Illinois

E A Sween Company-Chicago VAS

Woodridge, IL · ~17 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

E A Sween Company-Chicago VAS runs at 209% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

E A Sween Company-Chicago VAS: 4.6 TCR = 209% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

E A Sween Company-Chicago VAS safety composite

E A Sween Company-Chicago VAS 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−3.5

2019→2021

E A Sween Company-Chicago VAS injury rate improved

E A Sween Company-Chicago VAS's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.5 · 2020=10.3 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 209% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/78
  • PHOTO US Foods Grand Island
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Foods Grand Island (0.0 TCR gap)

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E A Sween Company-Chicago VAS 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 VAS averages 4.6 TCR (209% 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 VAS TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2020=10.3 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

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

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #35 safest of 78 General-line groceries merchan employers in Illinois.

E A Sween Company-Chicago VAS (17 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 E A Sween Company-Chicago VAS
E A Sween Company-Chicago VAS (17 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

E A Sween Company-Chicago VAS 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.3 10.3 2 0 0
2019 3.5 3.5 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR US Foods Grand Island 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sarasota FL 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbian Trading 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baily International of Atlanta 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Neoga 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plymouth 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility - NWRWRF - Village of Fox Lake 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airoom Architect Holdings, LLC 17 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 TriMark Hockenbergs Lenexa 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tie Down Inc 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Clear View Bag Co., Inc. 4.6 TCR

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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.