Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

Oak Forest

Oak Forest, IL · ~765 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oak Forest runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Oak Forest: 1.0 TCR = 44% of Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oak Forest safety composite

Oak Forest scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2017→2024

Oak Forest injury rate improved

Oak Forest's TCR fell 3.6 from 4.0 in 2017 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Oak Forest, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #3/32
  • PHOTO 44531G - KINGS MOUNT…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~765 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 44531G - KINGS MOUNTAIN PEC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oak Forest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oak Forest averages 1.0 TCR (44% of the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Oak Forest TCR series: 2017=4 · 2021=0 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Oak Forest falls in its industry

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 32 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa employers in Illinois.

Oak Forest (765 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Oak Forest
Oak Forest (765 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Oak Forest has more employees than the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2024 0.4 0.4 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.0 4.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · IL · Oak Forest

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 26 employers in Oak Forest, 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 44531G - KINGS MOUNTAIN PEC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods Inc. 82 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 43431C - MCALLEN DC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 43221D - HERMANTOWN 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE ARYZTA - Cicero 765 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peoria Park District 764 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essendant - Facility Support Center - Deerfield 763 FTE
STATE-SIZE Horizon Health Hospital Medical Foundation of Paris Inc 767 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARBOR - ARBOR PARK SD 145 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legendary Baking Oak Forest 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003163 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-02363 FAC-02363-OAK FOREST-IL 184 FTE
NAT-TCR 105082 - DW Gross Reservoir Expansion CM/GC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodward FST 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Spokane Flour Mill 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Blue Jackets 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE location 15005 765 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Apple Therapy 765 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fldee - Deerfield 765 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lear Corporation - Tuscaloosa 765 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017. 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.