Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

Midwest - West Chicago

West Chicago, IL · ~27 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest - West Chicago runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Midwest - West Chicago: 0.9 TCR = 43% of Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest - West Chicago safety composite

Midwest - West Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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 - West Chicago held a steady TCR band

Midwest - West Chicago's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · West Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 43% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/38
  • PHOTO NW Heavy: WH105, WH1…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NW Heavy: WH105, WH106 Monaca PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest - West Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest - West Chicago averages 0.9 TCR (43% 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 - West Chicago TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Midwest - West Chicago falls in its industry

766 Other Chemical and Allied Prod establishments

Safer than 78% 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 #8 safest of 38 Other Chemical and Allied Prod employers in Illinois.

Midwest - West Chicago (27 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 - West Chicago
Midwest - West Chicago (27 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Midwest - West Chicago has fewer employees than the Other Chemical and Allied Products Merch median and a lower 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2017 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IL · West Chicago

766 Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West Chicago, 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 NW Heavy: WH105, WH106 Monaca PA 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Durham 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tannin Corporation - Peabody 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midland, TX OV134 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pizzo Native Plant Nursery, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE C070 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-R&D 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloomington 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Quality Rebar, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Lakes at Texas City 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Williams Construction LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR IQHC Owatonna MN 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlanta-PLT 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Down, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenneth D Zotti Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florida Food Products, LLC - Amelia Bay 27 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, 2021, 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.