Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

Midwest- LaGrange

Lagrange, IL · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest- LaGrange runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Midwest- LaGrange: 4.7 TCR = 212% of Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest- LaGrange safety composite

Midwest- LaGrange scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Midwest- LaGrange held a steady TCR band

Midwest- LaGrange's TCR held near 0.2 from 4.6 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.6 · 2017=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Lagrange, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 212% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #33/38
  • PHOTO Cargill Buffalo Salt
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Buffalo Salt (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest- LaGrange in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest- LaGrange averages 4.7 TCR (212% of the Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest- LaGrange TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=4.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Midwest- LaGrange falls in its industry

766 Other Chemical and Allied Prod establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 38 Other Chemical and Allied Prod employers in Illinois.

Midwest- LaGrange (21 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Midwest- LaGrange
Midwest- LaGrange (21 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Midwest- LaGrange has fewer employees than the Other Chemical and Allied Products Merch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2017 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2016 4.6 4.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IL · Lagrange

766 Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 14 employers in Lagrange, 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 Cargill Buffalo Salt 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Facilities 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manassas Park Packaged Gas Store 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Glue & Machine Location 1 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frank W. Lewis & Son Seed FArms, Inc 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE RAVENS LIVESTOCK & FARMS INC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bushnell 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 21st Century Sow Farm 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange 956 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist LaGrange Memorial Hospital 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lyons Township HSD 204 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaGrange HQ (EMD) 686 FTE
NAT-TCR Columbia Distributing Springfield 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Maples Farm & Garden Center 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Legends - Indy Speedway 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hagerstown (Mdwil) 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4006 Mt. Aloysius College 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0774 - Albuquerque-Central, Nm 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0744 - Jasper, Al 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0725 - Easton, Pa 21 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.