Cane sugar, refined, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Sweet Specialty Solutions

Lemont, IL · ~80 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sweet Specialty Solutions runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cane sugar, refined, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Sweet Specialty Solutions: 4.3 TCR = 195% of Cane sugar, refined, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sweet Specialty Solutions safety composite

Sweet Specialty Solutions scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.4

2016→2024

Sweet Specialty Solutions injury rate improved

Sweet Specialty Solutions's TCR fell 6.4 from 8.9 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Lemont, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 195% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #13/46
  • PHOTO CDSD TAUNTON
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CDSD TAUNTON (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sweet Specialty Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sweet Specialty Solutions averages 4.3 TCR (195% of the Cane sugar, refined, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sweet Specialty Solutions TCR series: 2016=8.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Sweet Specialty Solutions falls in its industry

1,278 Cane sugar, refined, merchant establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 46 Cane sugar, refined, merchant employers in Illinois.

Sweet Specialty Solutions (80 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sweet Specialty Solutions
Sweet Specialty Solutions (80 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Sweet Specialty Solutions has more employees than the Cane sugar, refined, merchant wholesaler median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 2.5 1.3 2 0 0
2023 5.8 5.8 5 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.9 7.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · IL · Lemont

1,278 Cane sugar, refined, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 50 employers in Lemont, 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 CDSD TAUNTON 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kast Distributors 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WI - Windsor - 6493 Blanchars Crossing - The American Bottling Company 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BakeMark USA Pico Distribution 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rural Electric Convenience Cooperative 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crestwood Reporting Center 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Gas Ops 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE 74G - Eastern - IL Gas Ops 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lemont Refinery 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDV Midwest Refining, L.L.C. 573 FTE
CITY-NEAR Timberline Knolls 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Village 251 FTE
NAT-TCR Iowa State Penitentiary 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Electric of Lansing, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Location 24 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Total Concrete Services Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Raytheon_Redstone_AL_RRMIF 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oakmont 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cottondale 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agri-Empresa - Midland Location 80 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, 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.