Handles (e.g., broom, mop, handtool), wood, manufacturing · Illinois

Nex Step Commercial Products

Name: Nex Step Commercial Products Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Paxton, IL · ~69 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nex Step Commercial Products runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Handles (e.g., broom, mop, handtool), wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nex Step Commercial Products: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Handles (e.g., broom, mop, handtool), wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nex Step Commercial Products safety composite

Nex Step Commercial Products scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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).

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Nex Step Commercial Products: 0.0 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2020

Nex Step Commercial Products's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Paxton, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #1/11
PHOTO Aberdeen
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aberdeen (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Finis

1
This site

0.9
Aberdeen

0.9
Buckeye Resour

0.9
Tiger Launch -

0.9

What this shows Nex Step Commercial Products averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Handles (e.g., broom, mop, handtool), wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Nex Step Commercial Products TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Nex Step Commercial Products falls in its industry

405 Handles (e.g., broom, mop, han establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 11 Handles (e.g., broom, mop, han employers in Illinois.

Nex Step Commercial Products (69 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Nex Step Commercial Products has more employees than the Handles (e.g., broom, mop, handtool), wo median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2020	1.9	1.9	1	0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · IL · Paxton

405 Handles (e.g., broom, mop, handtool), wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 13 employers in Paxton, 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	Aberdeen	ABERDEEN, NC	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Buckeye Resources Inc	SPRINGFIELD, OH	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Southern Finishing - Plant 12	MARTINSVILLE, VA	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tiger Launch - A825	HARTSELLE, AL	0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Pioneer HiBred International Inc. McLeansboro Production	DAHLGREN	69 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Corteva Litchfield	LITCHFIELD	69 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2057-Centralia, IL (Monsanto Co.)	CENTRALIA	69 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hennepin Power Station	HENNEPIN	69 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Paxton-Buckley-Loda Community Unit School District No. 10	Paxton	257 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Accolade Healthcare of Paxton on Pells	Paxton	121 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Colmac Coil Midwest, Inc.	Paxton	120 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Heartland Health Care Center Paxton	Paxton	116 FTE
NAT-TCR	Telog Instruments, Inc	Victor, NY	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital (Housekeeping)	Birmingham, AL	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	OSC,Inc.	Buffalo, NY	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	LLS Bakersfield	Bakersfield, CA	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio	Bowling Green, OH	69 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Legacy on College Hill	Wichita, KS	69 FTE
NAT-SIZE	City of St. Paul City Attorney's Office	St. Paul, MN	69 FTE
NAT-SIZE	SLPFL	Ft Pierce, FL	69 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, 2017. 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.