Office Equipment · Illinois

IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc.

Buffalo Grove, IL · ~63 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

IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Office Equipment workplace, earning a grade F.

IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc.: 5.2 TCR = 237% of Office Equipment BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. safety composite

IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc.: 3.0 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2017

IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.4 from 3.0 in 2016 to 7.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423420 · Buffalo Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 237% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #17/19
  • PHOTO Toshiba America Busi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Toshiba America Business Solutions - Memphis (0.0 TCR gap)

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IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. averages 5.2 TCR (237% of the Office Equipment BLS benchmark).

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

IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=7.4 · BLS 2.2

Where IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. falls in its industry

416 Office Equipment establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 19 Office Equipment employers in Illinois.

IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc.
IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.7

IL.BUFFA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. has more employees than the Office Equipment median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2017 7.4 5.6 4 0 0
2016 3.0 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423420 · IL · Buffalo Grove

416 Office Equipment employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Buffalo Grove, 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 Toshiba America Business Solutions - Memphis 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NE.OMAHA.6 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Little Rock 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toshiba Business Solutions - King of Prussia 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waterman, IL-STC 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hinsdale Nurseries, Inc. Plano 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE 40L - IL Relay & Ops 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water/Public Works, Public Utiities 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Building Services, Inc. 2,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex - Buffalo Grove 1,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR BT Buffalo Grove 760 FTE
NAT-TCR TriMet Center Bus Maintenance Building 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Times Supermarket - Kamehameha 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Outpatient Rehabilitation at the YMCA 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hickory Ridge Nursing & Rehab Center 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Potosi Manor Inc 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Platte City Inc 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodward Printing Services/GIL Shopping News 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham 63 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: 2017, 2016. 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.