Building board (e.g., fiber, flake, particle) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Metro Hardwoods Chicago

Name: Metro Hardwoods Chicago Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Glendale Heights, IL · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 1.8
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Metro Hardwoods Chicago runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Building board (e.g., fiber, flake, particle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Metro Hardwoods Chicago: 1.8 TCR = 81% of Building board (e.g., fiber, flake, particle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro Hardwoods Chicago safety composite

Metro Hardwoods Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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).

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2017→2020

Metro Hardwoods Chicago injury rate improved

Metro Hardwoods Chicago's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.8 in 2017 to 3.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · Glendale Heights, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 81% of ind

DART 3.4 DART
RANK #4/22
PHOTO Salt Lake City - BMD
BOOK 4y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Salt Lake City - BMD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pittsburgh Whe

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What this shows Metro Hardwoods Chicago averages 1.8 TCR (81% of the Building board (e.g., fiber, flake, particle) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Metro Hardwoods Chicago TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Metro Hardwoods Chicago falls in its industry

1,225 Building board (e.g., fiber, f establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 22 Building board (e.g., fiber, f employers in Illinois.

Metro Hardwoods Chicago (26 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Metro Hardwoods Chicago has fewer employees than the Building board (e.g., fiber, flake, part median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2020	3.4	3.4	1
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	3.8	3.8	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · IL · Glendale Heights

1,225 Building board (e.g., fiber, flake, particle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 85 employers in Glendale Heights, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Salt Lake City - BMD	SALT LAKE CITY, UT	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tucker Fletcher	FLETCHER, NC	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	5102	KEARNY, NJ	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pittsburgh Wheatland - BMD	WHEATLAND, PA	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Rock River - Corporate	PROPHETSTOWN	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Corporate	NORTHFIELD	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hill 'N Dale Farm	BARRINGTON	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Jackson Generation	ELWOOD	26 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks	Glendale Heights	626 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Adventist GlenOaks Hospital	Glendale Heights	531 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MAIN	Glendale Heights	381 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kronos Foods	Glendale Heights	380 FTE
NAT-TCR	Rolls-Royce: 79th Street - ATC	Indianapolis, IN	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	DGS Aviation Services : BHM - Birmingham	Birmingham, AL	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kimball Cherry St	Jasper, IN	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	recro gainesville LLC	Gainesville, GA	1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	0000000074 Quickchek Food Stores	Whippany, NJ	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Machine Tool Design & Fab	Fostoria, OH	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jackson Metro Hardwoods	Jackson, WI	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Roses 402	Chesapeake, VA	26 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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