Office equipment merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Sandusky Buddy Products

Name: Sandusky Buddy Products Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Chicago, IL · ~31 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Sandusky Buddy Products runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Office equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Sandusky Buddy Products: 1.7 TCR = 77% of Office equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sandusky Buddy Products safety composite

Sandusky Buddy Products scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−7.0

2016→2021

Sandusky Buddy Products injury rate improved

Sandusky Buddy Products's TCR fell 7.0 from 7.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423420 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 77% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #8/19
PHOTO MI.NOVI.2 - Ricoh Us…
BOOK 6y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MI.NOVI.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Sandusky Buddy Products averages 1.7 TCR (77% of the Office equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Sandusky Buddy Products TCR series: 2016=7 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Sandusky Buddy Products falls in its industry

416 Office equipment merchant whol establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 19 Office equipment merchant whol employers in Illinois.

Sandusky Buddy Products (31 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Sandusky Buddy Products has fewer employees than the Office equipment merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	3.1	0.0	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0
2016	7.0	4.7	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423420 · IL · Chicago

416 Office equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	MI.NOVI.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc.	NOVI, MI	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Phoenix Arizona Branch - Pacific Office Automation Inc.	PHOENIX, AZ	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Akron Location	UNIONTOWN, OH	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Toshiba Business Solutions - Eagan	EAGAN, MN	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Bear Creek Genetics, LLC.	CARTHAGE	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Highland	HIGHLAND	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Maschhoffs, LLC - Pittsfield Office	PITTSFIELD	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Beardstown	BEARDSTOWN	31 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago Public Schools	Chicago	49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago/Corporate	Chicago	18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Illinois at Chicago	Chicago	13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University Health Service UIC UIC Campus	Chicago	12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR	McGriff Oxford Plant	Oxford, AL	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Baltimore/Washington (BWI)	Baltimore, MD	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Grundfos CBS Inc.	Brookshire, TX	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Golden Lake Elementary School	Circle Pines, MN	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Redtail Ridge Dairy, LLC	Malone, WI	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Crossroads	Cleveland, OH	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Grace Bedford	Bedford Heights, OH	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Calcium Products Inc. - Fort Dodge	Fort Dodge, IA	31 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.