Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services)

West Chicago, IL · ~200 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services) runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services): 1.1 TCR = 51% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services) safety composite

Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services): 1.1 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2024

Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services)'s TCR rose 0.8 from 1.1 in 2022 to 1.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · West Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.1 · 51% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #7/62
  • PHOTO Liberty Tire Recycli…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Liberty Tire Recycling - Sanford, NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services) averages 1.1 TCR (51% of the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services) TCR series: 2022=1.1 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services) falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl establishments

Safer than 90% 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 #7 safest of 62 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Illinois.

Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services) (200 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services)
Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services) (200 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Sims Recycling Solutions, Inc (dba Sims Lifecycle Services) has more employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal 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 1.8 1.4 4 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2022 1.1 1.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IL · West Chicago

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West Chicago, 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 Liberty Tire Recycling - Sanford, NC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt Recycling-Atlanta West 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smm Group Houston 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Recycling, Fontana 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE JBEC 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anning-Johnson Company Illinois 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Axium Foods, Inc 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sensient Flavors - Amboy 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Farrelli's Point Ruston 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Oxford Properties, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Test Devices, Business Unit of Schenck USA Corp. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Behler-Young Company - Grand Rapids 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ravago Manufacturing Americas Manchester 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owings Mills 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delek-Krotz Springs Refinery 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE PowderMonarch, LLC 200 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.