OSHA has inspected Interco Trading, Inc. 3 times in Illinois since 2018.
The latest one began on Mar 11, 2026 after a complaint, in Madison.
Those inspections ended with 2 citation items: 1 serious and 1 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $7,878 and now stand at $2,251, 71% lower after settlements or reviews.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for staffing, cleaning and waste services employers since 2015 is $2,201, and Interco Trading, Inc. averages $2,251 (1 cited inspection).
Interco Trading, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Illinois · latest 90 days of OSHA records
413employers cited
2 of them in the same industry
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From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Madison site logged 1 recordable injury or illness among about 73 workers: 1.5 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.3 for its industry. Those cases cost 117 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Interco Trading Company
Madison · 2025
73
1
1
1.5
2.3
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(2) Initial determination. Each employer who has a workplace or work operation covered by this standard shall determine if any exployee may be exposed to lead at or above the action level.
(8) The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.