Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Instrument Associates

Alsip, IL · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Instrument Associates runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Instrument Associates: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Instrument Associates safety composite

Instrument Associates scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Instrument Associates held a steady TCR band

Instrument Associates's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.0 TCR.

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Alsip, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/28
  • PHOTO SouthernCarlson - Ho…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex (HE) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Instrument Associates in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Instrument Associates averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Instrument Associates TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Instrument Associates falls in its industry

589 Industrial supplies (except di establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 28 Industrial supplies (except di employers in Illinois.

Instrument Associates (26 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Instrument Associates
Instrument Associates (26 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Instrument Associates has fewer employees than the Industrial supplies (except disposable p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · IL · Alsip

589 Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 117 employers in Alsip, 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 SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex (HE) 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEADP 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ENA - Corp 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR HydroairDees 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rock River - Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill 'N Dale Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Generation 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Menasha Packaging Company - Alsip 783 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1005 - Alsip 594 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alsip 388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Griffith Foods - Alsip 380 FTE
NAT-TCR Gap Inc. - Corporate 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn & Suites 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta - Phipps 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer 208 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE OmniSource LLC - Heavy Media 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE DeSmet Retirement Community 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Living Green Interior Landscaping, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE D&C Lumber Sales 26 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.