Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Wauconda

Wauconda, IL · ~48 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wauconda runs at 300% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Wauconda: 6.6 TCR = 300% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wauconda safety composite

Wauconda scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−7.6

2016→2024

Wauconda injury rate improved

Wauconda's TCR fell 7.6 from 12.2 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.2 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Wauconda, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 300% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #87/110
  • PHOTO LaBelle
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LaBelle (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wauconda in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wauconda averages 6.6 TCR (300% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Wauconda TCR series: 2016=12.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Wauconda falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #87 safest of 110 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Illinois.

Wauconda (48 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wauconda
Wauconda (48 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Wauconda has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2023 9.6 9.6 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 12.2 10.8 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IL · Wauconda

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 46 employers in Wauconda, 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 LaBelle 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR (02) LA Location 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR (01) LC Location 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SiteOne Landscape Supply #329 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Marengo - 04WW 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kirie Water Reclamation Plant 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Focus Development, Inc. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar Multi-Family - Central (Chicago) 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Synergy Flavors, Inc. 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acres Group - Wauconda facility 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berger Excavating Contractors 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wauconda, IL 157 FTE
NAT-TCR Bull Moose Tube 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Design Systems Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Badass Farming 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Valley Manufacturing - Plant 2 Hilltop & B-82 &87 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ben's Supercenter Marlette LLC South 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evolved By Nature Walpole 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Slate Hill Constructors Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yankee Hill Brick Manufacturer Company 48 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.