Steel merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Tool King Inc

Wheeling, IL · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tool King Inc runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Tool King Inc: 1.6 TCR = 75% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tool King Inc safety composite

Tool King Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

Tool King Inc: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Tool King Inc's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Wheeling, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/107
  • PHOTO vHPM - SoBo
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: vHPM - SoBo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tool King Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tool King Inc averages 1.6 TCR (75% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Tool King Inc TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Tool King Inc falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 107 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Illinois.

Tool King Inc (39 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Tool King Inc
Tool King Inc (39 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Tool King Inc has fewer employees than the Steel merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · Wheeling

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 136 employers in Wheeling, 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 vHPM - SoBo 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 514 Metals USA 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix Metals Company Location #33 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liebovich Steel and Aluminum North 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's El Paso 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Glen Nursery, Inc 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Joliet Generating Station 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Bloomington 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL-01 4,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeling School District 21 967 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office - 01 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Response Team 1 728 FTE
NAT-TCR Harrisburg / Jonestown Terminal 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Centrus Energy ACO-OR 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni Visions Knoxville 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dunn Construction Company, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Twin City Glass Corp 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merit Metal Products Corp 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3G Warehouse, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ameristar Screen and Glass Atlanta 39 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.