Wire and cable (except electrical) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Kwi LLC

North Chicago, IL · ~36 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kwi LLC runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wire and cable (except electrical) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Kwi LLC: 3.4 TCR = 155% of Wire and cable (except electrical) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kwi LLC safety composite

Kwi LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kwi LLC: 0.0 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Kwi LLC's TCR rose 5.9 from 0.0 in 2018 to 5.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · North Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 155% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #46/107
  • PHOTO O'Neal Steel Incorpo…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: O'Neal Steel Incorporated_Birmingham (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kwi LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kwi LLC averages 3.4 TCR (155% of the Wire and cable (except electrical) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Kwi LLC TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=3 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Kwi LLC falls in its industry

1,299 Wire and cable (except electri establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 107 Wire and cable (except electri employers in Illinois.

Kwi LLC (36 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kwi LLC
Kwi LLC (36 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Kwi LLC has fewer employees than the Wire and cable (except electrical) merch median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2024 5.9 2.9 2 0 0
2023 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2020 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2019 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · North Chicago

1,299 Wire and cable (except electrical) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in North Chicago, 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 O'Neal Steel Incorporated_Birmingham 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Material Sciences Corporation Los Angeles 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ta Chen International - GCS Houston 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PDM FPSS Stockton 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHI Greenhouse LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE MT ERIE COMPLEX -EST 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Malta 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Abbvie 20,982 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. North Chicago 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4319 North Chicago Container 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Chicago Container 133 FTE
NAT-TCR Federal Cartridge Company 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Scotts Company - Riverside 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Caan-90-Anaheim, Ca 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Archbold 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bellmore 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carolina 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garden State Bobcat, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas ProFab Corporation 36 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: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.