Recyclable Material Merch Waste · Illinois

LRS - Heartland

Forest View, IL · ~71 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LRS - Heartland runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Recyclable Material Merch Waste workplace, earning a grade D.

LRS - Heartland: 3.1 TCR = 143% of Recyclable Material Merch Waste BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LRS - Heartland safety composite

LRS - Heartland scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.6

2022→2024

LRS - Heartland injury rate improved

LRS - Heartland's TCR fell 5.6 from 6.9 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.9 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Forest View, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 143% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #24/62
  • PHOTO G&S Technologies
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: G&S Technologies (0.0 TCR gap)

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LRS - Heartland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LRS - Heartland averages 3.1 TCR (143% of the Recyclable Material Merch Waste BLS benchmark).

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

LRS - Heartland TCR series: 2022=6.9 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 2.2

Where LRS - Heartland falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable Material Merch Wast establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 62 Recyclable Material Merch Wast employers in Illinois.

LRS - Heartland (71 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate LRS - Heartland
LRS - Heartland (71 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

LRS - Heartland has more employees than the Recyclable Material Merch Waste median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 1.3 1.3 0 1 0
2023 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 6.9 3.5 0 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IL · Forest View

1,126 Recyclable Material Merch Waste employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 8 employers in Forest View, 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 G&S Technologies 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fortune Metal Midwest, LLC GA 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sprout California 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ECMS (BASF Converse) 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dwight, IL 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6697_16861 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menold Construction, Inc 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Contegra Enterprises 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midway IL FXFE-MDW 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heartland Recycling 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Daubert Chemical Company 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Forest View 5401 W 47th Street 70 FTE
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express Burlington 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TPI Engineered Systems 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6689 Cypress Park 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 5044 - 1-Main 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Graham Trucking Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE iDeliver Ontime LLC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE CDC Logistics, LLC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ll Printers Carlsbad, LLC 71 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, 2022. 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.