General freight trucking, local · Illinois

Lowell International Co.

Franklin Park, IL · ~49 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowell International Co. runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade B.

Lowell International Co.: 4.1 TCR = 70% of General freight trucking, local BLS 5.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowell International Co. safety composite

Lowell International Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Lowell International Co.: 2.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 100.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2019

Lowell International Co.'s TCR rose 2.1 from 2.0 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 100.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493190 · Franklin Park, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 4.1 · 70% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #16/25
  • PHOTO AWC Portland
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AWC Portland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowell International Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowell International Co. averages 4.1 TCR (70% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Lowell International Co. TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=100 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=4.1 · BLS 5.8

Where Lowell International Co. falls in its industry

453 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

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 25 General freight trucking, loca employers in Illinois.

Lowell International Co. (49 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lowell International Co.
Lowell International Co. (49 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Lowell International Co. has more employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2019 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2018 6.1 6.1 3 0 0
2017 100.0 100.0 1 0 0
2016 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493190 · IL · Franklin Park

453 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 127 employers in Franklin Park, 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 AWC Portland 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Torrance B112 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wesco - Haas Group International Atlanta Distribution Center 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnson Controls, Phoenix Warehouse 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boller Construction Co., Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Pipelining INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM. Aupperle & Sons, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE RI Glass Group 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILFRA - FRANKLIN PARK HUB 799 FTE
CITY-NEAR FRANKLIN PARK HUB (ILFRA) 740 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sloan Franklin Park 709 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hill Mechanical Corp 703 FTE
NAT-TCR Construction 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rancho Mesquite Casino Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Getchell Brothers - Bangor 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DoorLink Manufacturing Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Talladega Hatchery 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alabama GP Poultry Specialists/Production 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arc Electric Construction Co., Inc. 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Park Nursing and Rehab 49 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: 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.