School equipment and supplies (except books, furniture) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

School Specialty - Lombard

Lombard, IL · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

School Specialty - Lombard runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School equipment and supplies (except books, furniture) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

School Specialty - Lombard: 5.0 TCR = 227% of School equipment and supplies (except books, furniture) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

School Specialty - Lombard safety composite

School Specialty - Lombard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

School Specialty - Lombard: 3.4 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2024

School Specialty - Lombard's TCR rose 6.2 from 3.4 in 2022 to 9.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423490 · Lombard, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 227% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Bionuclear of Puerto…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bionuclear of Puerto Rico, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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School Specialty - Lombard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows School Specialty - Lombard averages 5.0 TCR (227% of the School equipment and supplies (except books, furniture) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

School Specialty - Lombard TCR series: 2022=3.4 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 2.2

Where School Specialty - Lombard falls in its industry

96 School equipment and supplies establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 School equipment and supplies employers in Illinois.

School Specialty - Lombard (37 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 05001,0001,500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate School Specialty - Lombard
School Specialty - Lombard (37 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.6

School Specialty - Lombard has fewer employees than the School equipment and supplies (except bo median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 9.7 3.2 3 0 0
2023 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423490 · IL · Lombard

96 School equipment and supplies (except books, furniture) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 133 employers in Lombard, 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 Bionuclear of Puerto Rico, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 18177055 18177055-MWI - BROWNS SUMMIT, NC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hercules Sealing Products Louisville 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4016-18177070 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curtis Orchard Ltd 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscola 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Seed Farms, Inc. - Ursa 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Fleet Facility 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR XLT Management Services, Inc. 6,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR Program Productions, LLC 5,622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Power Wellness Management 1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lombard Park District 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Clean Uniforms and More 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pettisville Grain Co. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St Joseph Hospital 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4745 Snohomish 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Martin Holding LLC dba Indiana Cardinal 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belgium Butter Nut & Candy LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carrier Commercial Services (Dallas) 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE AERCON Florida LLC 37 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.