Fertilizing lawns · Illinois

WM Chicago LLC

Elgin, IL · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WM Chicago LLC runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fertilizing lawns workplace, earning a grade D.

WM Chicago LLC: 6.6 TCR = 146% of Fertilizing lawns BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WM Chicago LLC safety composite

WM Chicago LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

WM Chicago LLC held a steady TCR band

WM Chicago LLC's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.5 in 2023 to 6.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.5 · 2024=6.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Elgin, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 146% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #82/133
  • PHOTO 5655 - Huntington
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5655 - Huntington (0.0 TCR gap)

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WM Chicago LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WM Chicago LLC averages 6.6 TCR (146% of the Fertilizing lawns BLS benchmark).

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

WM Chicago LLC TCR series: 2023=6.5 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 4.5

Where WM Chicago LLC falls in its industry

2,875 Fertilizing lawns establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 133 Fertilizing lawns employers in Illinois.

WM Chicago LLC (54 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate WM Chicago LLC
WM Chicago LLC (54 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

WM Chicago LLC has more employees than the Fertilizing lawns median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 6.6 6.6 3 0 0
2023 6.5 6.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IL · Elgin

2,875 Fertilizing lawns employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, 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 5655 - Huntington 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PT Landscape, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT TENET HAHNEMANN HOSP EVS 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Coast Green Inc 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois Crop Improvement Association, Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Electric Cooperative 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenlink Energy Solutions, Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE POINTCORE Construction, LLC 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Sherman Hospital 1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elgin 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin 774 FTE
NAT-TCR Mountain Laurel Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Wendy's-216 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hart Ranch Camping Resort 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Zoom Flume Water Park, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ochsner Medical Complex - Iberville 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cascade Cheese Company 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Indianapolis 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterfowl Winery 54 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.

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