Paper (e.g., fine, printing, writing), bulk, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Norkol Inc.

Northlake, IL · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norkol Inc. runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paper (e.g., fine, printing, writing), bulk, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Norkol Inc.: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Paper (e.g., fine, printing, writing), bulk, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norkol Inc. safety composite

Norkol Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

Norkol Inc. held a steady TCR band

Norkol Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.0 TCR.

2016=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424110 · Northlake, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/7
  • PHOTO Headquarters
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Headquarters (0.3 TCR gap)

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Norkol Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norkol Inc. averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Paper (e.g., fine, printing, writing), bulk, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Norkol Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Norkol Inc. falls in its industry

116 Paper (e.g., fine, printing, w establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 7 Paper (e.g., fine, printing, w employers in Illinois.

Norkol Inc. (40 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Norkol Inc.
Norkol Inc. (40 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Norkol Inc. has fewer employees than the Paper (e.g., fine, printing, writing), b median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424110 · IL · Northlake

116 Paper (e.g., fine, printing, writing), bulk, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 56 employers in Northlake, 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 Headquarters 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lindenmeyr Londonderry 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veritiv Operating Company - MO026 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insource Performance Solutions at International Paper 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Integrity Management 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Bloomington Reporting Center 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Downers Grove Sanitary District 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Window Works Addison 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL - Northlake 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Support 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARYZTA - Northlake 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group 403 FTE
NAT-TCR CA-Solmetric 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HI-02 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NY-03 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmond East 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kennedy Network Services, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-6175-Williams Sonoma 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE RagingWire TX 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 846 40 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, 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.