Office Equipment · Illinois

IL.BUFFA.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc

Buffalo Grove, IL · ~10 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IL.BUFFA.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Office Equipment workplace, earning a grade F.

IL.BUFFA.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc: 5.5 TCR = 251% of Office Equipment BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IL.BUFFA.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc safety composite

IL.BUFFA.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc: 0.0 → 33.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 33.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

IL.BUFFA.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc's TCR rose 33.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 33.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× 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 5.5 · 251% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/19
  • PHOTO Pleasanton Californi…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~10 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pleasanton California Branch - Pacific Office Automation Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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IL.BUFFA.4 - 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.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc averages 5.5 TCR (251% 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.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=10.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=33.3 · BLS 2.2

Where IL.BUFFA.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc falls in its industry

416 Office Equipment establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #18 safest of 19 Office Equipment employers in Illinois.

IL.BUFFA.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc (10 employees, TCR 5.5) 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.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc
IL.BUFFA.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc (10 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.7

IL.BUFFA.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc has fewer 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
2023 33.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 10.9 4.4 5 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Pleasanton California Branch - Pacific Office Automation Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gordon Flesch Company (Indy) 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toshiba Business Solutions - Westborough 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ultrex 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Climate Pros Indianapolis 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terrace Villa Park 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plaza 89 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE SODEXO AT ARGONNE CAFE 10 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 Dc 0111 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR De La Garza Fence Co.,Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 608 - Natchez 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DFW-AIR 5.5 TCR

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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.