Materials Recovery Facilities · Illinois

East Hazel Crest

East Hazel Crest, IL · ~55 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

East Hazel Crest runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Materials Recovery Facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

East Hazel Crest: 6.9 TCR = 265% of Materials Recovery Facilities BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

East Hazel Crest safety composite

East Hazel Crest scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

East Hazel Crest held a steady TCR band

East Hazel Crest's TCR held near 0.3 from 5.0 in 2017 to 5.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.0 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=14.9 · 2020=6.0 · 2022=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · East Hazel Crest, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 265% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/22
  • PHOTO Entech, Inc
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Entech, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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East Hazel Crest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows East Hazel Crest averages 6.9 TCR (265% of the Materials Recovery Facilities BLS benchmark).

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

East Hazel Crest TCR series: 2017=5 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=14.9 · 2020=6 · 2022=5.3 · BLS 2.6

Where East Hazel Crest falls in its industry

422 Materials Recovery Facilities establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 22 Materials Recovery Facilities employers in Illinois.

East Hazel Crest (55 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 East Hazel Crest
East Hazel Crest (55 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

East Hazel Crest has more employees than the Materials Recovery Facilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2022 5.3 0.0 3 0 0
2020 6.0 3.0 4 0 0
2019 14.9 8.1 11 0 0
2018 3.4 2.2 3 0 0
2017 5.0 1.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · IL · East Hazel Crest

422 Materials Recovery Facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 6 employers in East Hazel Crest, 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 Entech, Inc 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S05652 - Dallas Container Shop 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marck Recycling of Northwest Arkansas 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle - 3rd Ave 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0G6 - Gas Storage 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE BS&T Construction 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOSCO Construction Services, Inc 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Electrical Systems Inc. 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR BrandSafway Industries, LLC - Chicago - Branch 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diversified Recycling 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Hazel Crest Fire Department 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Sysco Southeast Florida, LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TTS 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Iga #451 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AGRIServices of Brunswick - West 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE CRC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willow Park 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Atlanta 36420 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beard Equipment Company Jacksonville 55 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.