Chemical additives (e.g., concrete, food, fuel, oil) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

TLC Ingredients, Inc.

Crest Hill, IL · ~23 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

TLC Ingredients, Inc. runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chemical additives (e.g., concrete, food, fuel, oil) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

TLC Ingredients, Inc.: 2.8 TCR = 125% of Chemical additives (e.g., concrete, food, fuel, oil) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TLC Ingredients, Inc. safety composite

TLC Ingredients, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TLC Ingredients, Inc. held a steady TCR band

TLC Ingredients, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=8.0 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=8.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Crest Hill, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 125% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #24/38
  • PHOTO Hydrite - LaCrosse WI
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hydrite - LaCrosse WI (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Illinois employers → · Look up another →

TLC Ingredients, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TLC Ingredients, Inc. averages 2.8 TCR (125% of the Chemical additives (e.g., concrete, food, fuel, oil) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

TLC Ingredients, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=8 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=8.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where TLC Ingredients, Inc. falls in its industry

766 Chemical additives (e.g., conc establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 38 Chemical additives (e.g., conc employers in Illinois.

TLC Ingredients, Inc. (23 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate TLC Ingredients, Inc.
TLC Ingredients, Inc. (23 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

TLC Ingredients, Inc. has fewer employees than the Chemical additives (e.g., concrete, food median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 8.4 8.4 2 0 0
2019 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2018 8.0 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IL · Crest Hill

766 Chemical additives (e.g., concrete, food, fuel, oil) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 26 employers in Crest Hill, 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 Hydrite - LaCrosse WI 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6603_15282 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest - Aurora 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Tokyo Kasei inc. 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : MDW5 1,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MDW5 1,509 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill 486 FTE
CITY-NEAR First Student Crest Hill 333 FTE
NAT-TCR Green Ag Management, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ludwig Drilling LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Electro-Miniatures Corp. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR UP Paper LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Springdale Winnelson 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cal Gro Pump Service, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 6276 - Washington 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 133 23 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.