Pet food merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il

Des Plaines, IL · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il runs at 549% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pet food merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il: 12.1 TCR = 549% of Pet food merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il safety composite

Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.1

2020→2021

Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il injury rate improved

Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il's TCR fell 11.1 from 17.6 in 2020 to 6.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 17.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=17.6 · 2021=6.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Des Plaines, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 549% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #40/46
  • PHOTO Sylmar - RCCB
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sylmar - RCCB (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il averages 12.1 TCR (549% of the Pet food merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il TCR series: 2020=17.6 · 2021=6.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il falls in its industry

1,278 Pet food merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 46 Pet food merchant wholesalers employers in Illinois.

Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il (50 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il
Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il (50 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Pet Food Experts - Des Plaines, Il has fewer employees than the Pet food merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2021 6.6 4.9 4 0 0
2020 17.6 15.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · IL · Des Plaines

1,278 Pet food merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 174 employers in Des Plaines, 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 Sylmar - RCCB 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CA - Fresno - 2021 Pearl St - The American Bottling Company 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Island - GI 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR White Lake Branch 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Champaign CMI1 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1240-Monmouth, IL 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Constellation Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Storage 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Ice Cream Center 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4052 Florida Southwestern State College 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Doubletree Hilton Flagstaff 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HG182 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE LMC McKinney 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nehemiah Rebar, Inc. - Colorado 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Public Safety (20) 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Service Plastic Molding, Inc. Beavercreek 50 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.