Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

pewag Inc.

Bolingbrook, IL · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

pewag Inc. runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

pewag Inc.: 4.8 TCR = 216% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

pewag Inc. safety composite

pewag Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Rising injury rate

pewag Inc.: 2.4 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

pewag Inc.'s TCR rose 4.8 from 2.4 in 2023 to 7.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Bolingbrook, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 216% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #17/21
  • PHOTO Branch 62
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Branch 62 (0.0 TCR gap)

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pewag Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows pewag Inc. averages 4.8 TCR (216% of the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

pewag Inc. TCR series: 2023=2.4 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 2.2

Where pewag Inc. falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 21 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Illinois.

pewag Inc. (47 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate pewag Inc.
pewag Inc. (47 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

pewag Inc. has fewer employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2024 7.2 4.8 3 0 0
2023 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · IL · Bolingbrook

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 243 employers in Bolingbrook, 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 Branch 62 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CE&I Division - PLANO TX 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Service Hardware LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harrisburg Repair Center 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1987-Jerseyville, IL (Monsanto Co.) 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-Mfg 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Power, Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Decatur 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL-02 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 1,368 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4818-48180018-300 E. CROSSROADS PKWY-WC 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR G&W Electric Company 935 FTE
NAT-TCR Schafer Ranch, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Quadd Building Systems 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR J.W. Bamford, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Porter Logistics LTD 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pepsi-Cola of Mitchell 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nicomatic LLC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Park 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Modern Dispersions Inc 47 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. 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.