Other Nonhaz Waste Treat & Disposal · Illinois

LRS - West Chicago

West Chicago, IL · ~132 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LRS - West Chicago runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Other Nonhaz Waste Treat & Disposal workplace, earning a grade B.

LRS - West Chicago: 2.0 TCR = 77% of Other Nonhaz Waste Treat & Disposal BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LRS - West Chicago safety composite

LRS - West Chicago scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.8

2022→2024

LRS - West Chicago injury rate improved

LRS - West Chicago's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.8 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.8 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562219 · West Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 77% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/17
  • PHOTO Cedar Avenue Recycli…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cedar Avenue Recycling and Transfer Station (0.0 TCR gap)

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LRS - West Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LRS - West Chicago averages 2.0 TCR (77% of the Other Nonhaz Waste Treat & Disposal BLS benchmark).

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

LRS - West Chicago TCR series: 2022=2.8 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2 · BLS 2.6

Where LRS - West Chicago falls in its industry

171 Other Nonhaz Waste Treat & Dis establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 17 Other Nonhaz Waste Treat & Dis employers in Illinois.

LRS - West Chicago (132 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate LRS - West Chicago
LRS - West Chicago (132 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.9

LRS - West Chicago has more employees than the Other Nonhaz Waste Treat & Disposal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2024 2.0 0.0 3 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 0 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562219 · IL · West Chicago

171 Other Nonhaz Waste Treat & Disposal employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West 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 Cedar Avenue Recycling and Transfer Station 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Approved Storage and Waste Hauling II Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR County Waste Southwest Virginia LLC 2 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR VLS Spartanburg 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kincaid Generation LLC 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE McNelly Services, Inc. 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Imperial Construction Associates, Inc. 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE CUBS CONSTRUCTION INC 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Indiana Service Center 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 3625 Asheville 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Alverno College 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 400 Park Avenue 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Henry A Petter Supply Co. 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE SIMONA America Industries 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redtails Logistics Corporation Inc 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dsd Merchandisers LLC 132 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.