Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers · Illinois

McNichols - CHI

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~65 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McNichols - CHI runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

McNichols - CHI: 4.3 TCR = 196% of Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McNichols - CHI safety composite

McNichols - CHI scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.65 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

−2.0

2023→2024

McNichols - CHI injury rate improved

McNichols - CHI's TCR fell 2.0 from 5.3 in 2023 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.3 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Elk Grove Village, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 196% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #59/107
  • PHOTO O'Neal Steel, LLC Sh…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: O'Neal Steel, LLC Shelbyville (0.0 TCR gap)

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McNichols - CHI in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McNichols - CHI averages 4.3 TCR (196% of the Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

McNichols - CHI TCR series: 2023=5.3 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 2.2

Where McNichols - CHI falls in its industry

1,299 Semi-finished metal products m establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 107 Semi-finished metal products m employers in Illinois.

McNichols - CHI (65 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate McNichols - CHI
McNichols - CHI (65 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

McNichols - CHI has more employees than the Semi-finished metal products merchant wh median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2024 3.3 1.6 2 0 0
2023 5.3 3.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · Elk Grove Village

1,299 Semi-finished metal products merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, 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 O'Neal Steel, LLC Shelbyville 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PDM Spanish Fork 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Steel Canby 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor Steel Inc. 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience McLeansboro Production 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bluff City Materials - Corporate Office 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vector Services 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yorkville Reporting Center 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR creative werks, LLC 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL008 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR UH/OVPRI/OANRP 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Spaulding Nursing and Therapy Brighton 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Excel Mechanical, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sparks, NV 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coating and Converting Technologies 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insteel Wire Products AZW 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dodson Service Center 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Noland Hospital Anniston 65 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. 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.