Recycled Material Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

Pioneer Fibers Inc.

Elk Grove, IL · ~38 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pioneer Fibers Inc. runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Recycled Material Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Pioneer Fibers Inc.: 2.6 TCR = 116% of Recycled Material Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pioneer Fibers Inc. safety composite

Pioneer Fibers Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Pioneer Fibers Inc.: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Pioneer Fibers Inc.'s TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Elk Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 116% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #18/62
  • PHOTO Texarkana Recycling …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Texarkana Recycling Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pioneer Fibers Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pioneer Fibers Inc. averages 2.6 TCR (116% of the Recycled Material Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Pioneer Fibers Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Pioneer Fibers Inc. falls in its industry

1,126 Recycled Material Merchant Who establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 62 Recycled Material Merchant Who employers in Illinois.

Pioneer Fibers Inc. (38 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Pioneer Fibers Inc.
Pioneer Fibers Inc. (38 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Pioneer Fibers Inc. has fewer employees than the Recycled Material Merchant Wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2024 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.5 3.7 3 0 0
2018 7.1 3.5 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IL · Elk Grove

1,126 Recycled Material Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 24 employers in Elk Grove, 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 Texarkana Recycling Plant 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR OmniSource LLC - SID Trucking 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quantum Metals 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fortune Metal Inc 2019 OSHA reporting 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Gibson City, IL 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 629 - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freeport 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 23003 989 FTE
CITY-NEAR MC Machinery Systems, Inc. Headquarters 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR Groot East 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR FPM Heat Treating Elk Grove 149 FTE
NAT-TCR WCAT Lubbock 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Hanover Plant 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR C. M. Joslin Co., Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Leeda Northeast, Inc Ashtabula 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stiles Roofing Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allison Fence Company 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE R+L Carriers - ELP 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE PGSTL 38 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.