Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Headquarters

Elgin, IL · ~50 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Headquarters runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Headquarters: 3.5 TCR = 158% of Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Headquarters safety composite

Headquarters scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−4.8

2016→2022

Headquarters injury rate improved

Headquarters's TCR fell 4.8 from 7.1 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.1 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Elgin, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 158% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #12/15
  • PHOTO Veritiv Operating Co…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Veritiv Operating Company - NC023 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Headquarters in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Headquarters averages 3.5 TCR (158% of the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Headquarters TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Headquarters falls in its industry

290 Bags, paper and disposable pla establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 15 Bags, paper and disposable pla employers in Illinois.

Headquarters (50 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Headquarters
Headquarters (50 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Headquarters has more employees than the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2022 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2018 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2016 7.1 7.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · IL · Elgin

290 Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, 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 Veritiv Operating Company - NC023 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunzl Baltimore 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cincinnati Headquarters 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veritiv Operating Company - TX392 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Champaign CMI1 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1240-Monmouth, IL 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Constellation Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Storage 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Sherman Hospital 1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elgin 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin 774 FTE
NAT-TCR The Arthur Jackson Company 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ISD 742 Tech High School 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PL Developments 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Elrods Cost Plus #7 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE National Management Resources (Palm Beach Atlantic University) 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE 30120 Capstone Adusa Dc1 South Portland 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fashion Square #551 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-392-Williams Sonoma 50 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.