Pallet Wood Plant · Illinois

McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337

Richmond, IL · ~176 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337 runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pallet Wood Plant workplace, earning a grade D.

McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337: 5.8 TCR = 176% of Pallet Wood Plant BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337 safety composite

McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337: 5.3 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2024

McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337's TCR rose 1.0 from 5.3 in 2022 to 6.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Richmond, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #19/42
  • PHOTO MV-NC-MOCKSVILLE
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~176 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MV-NC-MOCKSVILLE (0.0 TCR gap)

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McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337 averages 5.8 TCR (176% of the Pallet Wood Plant BLS benchmark).

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

McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337 TCR series: 2022=5.3 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337 falls in its industry

952 Pallet Wood Plant establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 42 Pallet Wood Plant employers in Illinois.

McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337 (176 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337
McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337 (176 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337 has more employees than the Pallet Wood Plant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 6.4 4.8 8 0 0
2023 5.7 4.3 8 0 0
2022 5.3 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · IL · Richmond

952 Pallet Wood Plant employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 14 employers in Richmond, 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 MV-NC-MOCKSVILLE 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Coast Pallet 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverside, CA - 520 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kamps Pallets Columbus 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chicago/ Rockford, IL HVAC 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA IL Chicago Plant 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vantage Specialty Chemicals 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE RhinoAG 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richmond, IL 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leica Biosystems Richmond 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watlow GDN 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leica Biosystems 157 FTE
NAT-TCR Siena Lakes 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Yancey House 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 862 - Meijer Central Kitchen Deli 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kls Frito Lay Tn 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE UNFI Distribution Company, LLC (Fort Wayne) 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fruita Jobsites 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE MacArthur Company - Energy Panel Structures IA 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Martin 176 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.