Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Employees Joliet

Joliet, IL · ~65 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Employees Joliet runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Employees Joliet: 5.2 TCR = 238% of Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Employees Joliet safety composite

Employees Joliet scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−1.3

2022→2023

Employees Joliet injury rate improved

Employees Joliet's TCR fell 1.3 from 5.9 in 2022 to 4.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.9 · 2023=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Joliet, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 238% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #35/38
  • PHOTO West Chicago
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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Employees Joliet in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Employees Joliet averages 5.2 TCR (238% of the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Employees Joliet TCR series: 2022=5.9 · 2023=4.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Employees Joliet falls in its industry

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

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 38 Chemicals (except agriculture) employers in Illinois.

Employees Joliet (65 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Employees Joliet
Employees Joliet (65 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Employees Joliet has more employees than the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., au median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2023 4.6 4.6 3 0 0
2022 5.9 2.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IL · Joliet

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 281 employers in Joliet, 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 West Chicago 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR nexAir McLean 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Cincinnati Gest St 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tewksbury 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience McLeansboro Production 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bluff City Materials - Corporate Office 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vector Services 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yorkville Reporting Center 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR County Of Will 2,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MDW2 2,361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MDW2 2,101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Joliet 2,089 FTE
NAT-TCR Krystal Companies LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkdale America LLC Plant 24 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NHC Healthcare, Bluffton 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Birmingham 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas Electric Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE SPR Houston 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tourtellot 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Wire Products Company 65 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.