Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

Midwest - South Chicago Heights

South Chicago Heights, IL · ~28 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest - South Chicago Heights runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Midwest - South Chicago Heights: 2.6 TCR = 120% of Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest - South Chicago Heights safety composite

Midwest - South Chicago Heights scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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 - South Chicago Heights held a steady TCR band

Midwest - South Chicago Heights's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=10.9 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=4.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · South Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.6 · 120% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/38
  • PHOTO Greenfield Global US…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greenfield Global USA Inc. Shelbyville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest - South Chicago Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest - South Chicago Heights averages 2.6 TCR (120% 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 - South Chicago Heights TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=10.9 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Midwest - South Chicago Heights falls in its industry

766 Other Chemical and Allied Prod establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #23 safest of 38 Other Chemical and Allied Prod employers in Illinois.

Midwest - South Chicago Heights (28 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 - South Chicago Heights
Midwest - South Chicago Heights (28 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Midwest - South Chicago Heights 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2017 10.9 7.3 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IL · South Chicago Heights

766 Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 8 employers in South Chicago Heights, 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 Greenfield Global USA Inc. Shelbyville 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spartanburg SP 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisville Crittenden 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Mifflin Packaged Gas Plant 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03167 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003167 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-03167 FAC-03167-SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS-IL 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cosmos Manufacturing, Inc. 99 FTE
NAT-TCR Foreman Bros. Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Aberdeen MD - Old Philadelphi 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rincon Distribution Center 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GRFT 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Great Lakes Columbus 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Early Education Center-Caruso 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Youth Work Services-Central 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Start LA 28 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 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.