Machine tools and accessories merchant wholesalers · Illinois

SST - Midwest

Elgin, IL · ~24 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SST - Midwest runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine tools and accessories merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

SST - Midwest: 3.0 TCR = 135% of Machine tools and accessories merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SST - Midwest safety composite

SST - Midwest scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

SST - Midwest: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2020

SST - Midwest's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Elgin, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.0 · 135% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #26/38
  • PHOTO Durst Image Technolo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Durst Image Technology US LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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SST - Midwest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SST - Midwest averages 3.0 TCR (135% of the Machine tools and accessories merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

SST - Midwest TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=4 · BLS 2.2

Where SST - Midwest falls in its industry

911 Machine tools and accessories establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 38 Machine tools and accessories employers in Illinois.

SST - Midwest (24 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate SST - Midwest
SST - Midwest (24 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

SST - Midwest has fewer employees than the Machine tools and accessories merchant w median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2020 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2019 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2018 7.2 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · IL · Elgin

911 Machine tools and accessories merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, 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 Durst Image Technology US LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ohio Transmission Corporation AT Pittsburgh PA 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Briggs Atlanta 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raymond Storage Concepts - Cincinnati 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE C70 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hecate Grid LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG DeKalb Reporting Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Sherman Hospital 1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elgin 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin 774 FTE
NAT-TCR Medspeed Pittsburgh 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR QCS 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley Furniture Homestore- Greenwood 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR New London-Spicer High School 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Senior Living 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medspeed Atlanta 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medspeed Boise 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farmington Hills Treatment Center 24 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.