Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Fortune Metal Midwest IL

Sandwich, IL · ~31 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fortune Metal Midwest IL runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Fortune Metal Midwest IL: 2.6 TCR = 120% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fortune Metal Midwest IL safety composite

Fortune Metal Midwest IL scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Fortune Metal Midwest IL held a steady TCR band

Fortune Metal Midwest IL's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Sandwich, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 120% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/62
  • PHOTO Batliner Paper Stock…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Batliner Paper Stock Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fortune Metal Midwest IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fortune Metal Midwest IL averages 2.6 TCR (120% of the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Fortune Metal Midwest IL TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=4 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Fortune Metal Midwest IL falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 62 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Illinois.

Fortune Metal Midwest IL (31 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Fortune Metal Midwest IL
Fortune Metal Midwest IL (31 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Fortune Metal Midwest IL has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2022 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IL · Sandwich

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 16 employers in Sandwich, 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 Batliner Paper Stock Co. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lu Mar Industrial Metals Co., Ltd. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR OmniSource LLC - Charlotte 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schupan Industrial Recycling Elkhart 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bear Creek Genetics, LLC. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highland 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Maschhoffs, LLC - Pittsfield Office 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Beardstown 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plano Molding - Sandwich 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandwich Manufacturing 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Open Door Rehabilitation Center 119 FTE
NAT-TCR Pacific Grove 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR S&W Manufacturing, A Smead Company 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Regal Machine MFG 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Charles E. Thomas Company 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE AAA Mountain Waterproofing, LLC 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elliott Construction, LLC 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Juice Company Memphis 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landmark Services, Inc. - Laguna Niguel Federal Building 31 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.