General warehousing and storage · Illinois

Knipex-Tools

Buffalo Grove, IL · ~37 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knipex-Tools runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General warehousing and storage workplace, earning a grade A.

Knipex-Tools: 1.6 TCR = 27% of General warehousing and storage BLS 5.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knipex-Tools safety composite

Knipex-Tools scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

Knipex-Tools held a steady TCR band

Knipex-Tools's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Buffalo Grove, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #105/551
  • PHOTO Bose Otay Warehouse
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bose Otay Warehouse (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knipex-Tools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knipex-Tools averages 1.6 TCR (27% of the General warehousing and storage BLS benchmark).

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

Knipex-Tools TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 5.8

Where Knipex-Tools falls in its industry

9,477 General warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #105 safest of 551 General warehousing and storag employers in Illinois.

Knipex-Tools (37 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Knipex-Tools
Knipex-Tools (37 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Knipex-Tools has fewer employees than the General warehousing and storage median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · IL · Buffalo Grove

9,477 General warehousing and storage 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 Bose Otay Warehouse 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roanoke 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CALEXICO FORWARDING OF CA INC 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branch 4665 - Van Nuys 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curtis Orchard Ltd 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscola 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Seed Farms, Inc. - Ursa 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Fleet Facility 37 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 National Office Furniture 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dr. Singh/Dr. Arora 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cumberland Pipeline 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FAB Express, Inc. - Streetsboro 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Biosecurity Building 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at St. Luke'S Des Peres Hospital 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Balsz School District-Food 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Park Newport Apartments 37 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, 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.