Employer · Illinois

Wm 1898

Saint Charles, IL · ~246 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wm 1898 runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

Wm 1898: 2.1 TCR = 61% of industry BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wm 1898 safety composite

Wm 1898 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

Wm 1898: 1.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Wm 1898's TCR rose 2.1 from 1.0 in 2023 to 3.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452910 · Saint Charles, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 61% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #9/336
  • PHOTO WM 1107
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~246 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WM 1107 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wm 1898 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wm 1898 averages 2.1 TCR (61% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Wm 1898 TCR series: 2023=1 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Wm 1898 falls in its industry

8,658 industry establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 336 industry employers in Illinois.

Wm 1898 (246 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wm 1898
Wm 1898 (246 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Wm 1898 has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 3.2 2.6 6 0 0
2023 1.0 0.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452910 · IL · Saint Charles

8,658 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 25 employers in Saint Charles, 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 WM 1107 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meijer Store 42 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 773 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 2760 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Distribution Dispatch Center 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE RG Construction Services, Inc. 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cheese Merchants of America 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE FGS Precise LLC 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR WISE PLASTICS TECHNOLOGIES INC 393 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meijer Store 182 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1898 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1738 LOWE S OF ST. CHARLES IL 167 FTE
NAT-TCR Ecumen Home Care Lakeshore 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Textron Aviation - Pawnee 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR M.D. Descant, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cherokee Operations Center 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 317 - Tallmadge Rd Kent 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garrett Metal Detectors 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfax 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Christensen Farms & Feedlots, Inc. 246 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. 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.