Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

LaForce - Vernon Hills

Vernon Hills, IL · ~24 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LaForce - Vernon Hills runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

LaForce - Vernon Hills: 4.2 TCR = 192% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LaForce - Vernon Hills safety composite

LaForce - Vernon Hills scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

LaForce - Vernon Hills: 4.0 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

LaForce - Vernon Hills's TCR rose 0.9 from 4.0 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Vernon Hills, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 192% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/21
  • PHOTO Distribution Center …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Distribution Center Dayton (0.0 TCR gap)

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LaForce - Vernon Hills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LaForce - Vernon Hills averages 4.2 TCR (192% of the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

LaForce - Vernon Hills TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=7.9 · 2020=4.9 · BLS 2.2

Where LaForce - Vernon Hills falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 21 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Illinois.

LaForce - Vernon Hills (24 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate LaForce - Vernon Hills
LaForce - Vernon Hills (24 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

LaForce - Vernon Hills has fewer employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2020 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 7.9 7.9 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2016 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · IL · Vernon Hills

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 65 employers in Vernon Hills, 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 Distribution Center Dayton 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ILPRA 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wurth Baer Supply Co BR 83 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-4501 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE C70 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hecate Grid LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG DeKalb Reporting Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Hills 1,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rust-Oleum 580 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Hills, IL - BCU 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Vernon Hills 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Save A Lot #413 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (102) 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Plainville Farms Distribution Center 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Puratos Rancho Dominguez 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4T Construction 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE WMT 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA.RANCH.26 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE L & N Zimmerman Excavating Inc. 24 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.