Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Essendant Carol Stream OE

Carol Stream, IL · ~280 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essendant Carol Stream OE runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Essendant Carol Stream OE: 4.1 TCR = 187% of Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essendant Carol Stream OE safety composite

Essendant Carol Stream OE scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Essendant Carol Stream OE: 1.9 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

Essendant Carol Stream OE's TCR rose 2.1 from 1.9 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424120 · Carol Stream, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 187% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Essendant: Perris OE…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~280 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Essendant: Perris OE FE IE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essendant Carol Stream OE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essendant Carol Stream OE averages 4.1 TCR (187% of the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Essendant Carol Stream OE TCR series: 2020=1.9 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=4 · BLS 2.2

Where Essendant Carol Stream OE falls in its industry

87 Stationery supplies merchant w establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Stationery supplies merchant w employers in Illinois.

Essendant Carol Stream OE (280 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05,00010,00015,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essendant Carol Stream OE
Essendant Carol Stream OE (280 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Essendant Carol Stream OE has more employees than the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2024 4.0 3.1 9 0 0
2023 5.1 3.0 12 0 0
2022 4.9 3.1 11 0 0
2021 4.6 4.0 8 0 0
2020 1.9 1.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424120 · IL · Carol Stream

87 Stationery supplies 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 Essendant: Perris OE FE IE 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sacramento 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Distribution Management Inc. DC-PENN 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clover Environmental Solutions LLC - Ottawa, IL (Dayton Rd) 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE DWM-39th and Iron Central Dispatch New Construction | 1424 W. Pershing Rd. 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Chicago - Department of Water Management - 4900 W Sunnyside Ave 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stark Excavating Inc. 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Source One Events 280 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 Memorial School 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0027 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0284 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1486 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc - Carson 1 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cromwell Markets LLB dba ShopRite of Cromwell 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE 00702 Jim Bridger Plant 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omni Corpus Christi Hotel 280 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.