General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

M. Block & Sons Bedford Park

Bedford Park, IL · ~233 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

M. Block & Sons Bedford Park runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

M. Block & Sons Bedford Park: 1.7 TCR = 78% of General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

M. Block & Sons Bedford Park safety composite

M. Block & Sons Bedford Park scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

M. Block & Sons Bedford Park: 1.5 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2018

M. Block & Sons Bedford Park's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.5 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423990 · Bedford Park, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 78% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO LIBERTY DOOR SYSTEMS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~233 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LIBERTY DOOR SYSTEMS (0.0 TCR gap)

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M. Block & Sons Bedford Park in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows M. Block & Sons Bedford Park averages 1.7 TCR (78% of the General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

M. Block & Sons Bedford Park TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=1 · 2018=2.7 · BLS 2.2

Where M. Block & Sons Bedford Park falls in its industry

322 General merchandise, durable g establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 11 General merchandise, durable g employers in Illinois.

M. Block & Sons Bedford Park (233 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate M. Block & Sons Bedford Park
M. Block & Sons Bedford Park (233 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.0

M. Block & Sons Bedford Park has more employees than the General merchandise, durable goods, merc median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 2.7 2.1 5 0 0
2017 1.0 1.0 3 0 0
2016 1.5 1.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423990 · IL · Bedford Park

322 General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 140 employers in Bedford 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 LIBERTY DOOR SYSTEMS 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR OC 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pyramex Safety 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE INEOS Joliet 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bradley Services, Inc 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10D8144 PHARMA CHICAGOLAND DC 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer 192 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDWPW9669 MDW - OPS 1,757 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILBED - BEDFORD PARK 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR BEDFORD PARK (ILBED) 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161546-SOUTH SUBURBAN IL P&DC 834 FTE
NAT-TCR Lexington Distribution Operations Center 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Muldraugh Compressor Station 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR KTC 50020 Collins 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR HQ 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kauffman Engineering, Inc. LOG 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE BRP US Inc. Spruce Pine 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anthony Timberlands - Bearden 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE KCP&L - Iatan Generation Facility 233 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.