Discount Department Stores · Illinois

0942 - Chicago Near North Elston

Chicago, IL · ~454 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0942 - Chicago Near North Elston runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

0942 - Chicago Near North Elston: 5.8 TCR = 172% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0942 - Chicago Near North Elston safety composite

0942 - Chicago Near North Elston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−6.0

2022→2024

0942 - Chicago Near North Elston injury rate improved

0942 - Chicago Near North Elston's TCR fell 6.0 from 9.6 in 2022 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.6 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 172% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #177/220
  • PHOTO 2038 - Webster
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~454 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2038 - Webster (0.0 TCR gap)

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0942 - Chicago Near North Elston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0942 - Chicago Near North Elston averages 5.8 TCR (172% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0942 - Chicago Near North Elston TCR series: 2022=9.6 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 0942 - Chicago Near North Elston falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #177 safest of 220 Discount Department Stores employers in Illinois.

0942 - Chicago Near North Elston (454 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0942 - Chicago Near North Elston
0942 - Chicago Near North Elston (454 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0942 - Chicago Near North Elston has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 3.6 3.2 8 1 0
2023 4.4 3.6 12 0 0
2022 9.6 8.6 11 17 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IL · Chicago

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 2038 - Webster 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0872 - Northville 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0676 - Salinas 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0924 - Mt Pleasant 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Woodstock Sterile Solutions 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE Federal Signal Safety & Security Systems Group 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nidec Mobility of America Corporation 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5402 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR 0872 - Northville 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR George's Transportation, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Partnership Painting, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ashland Processing 454 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mv Corp. Inc. 454 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Minnesota Services, LLC 454 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Little Nell Hotel 454 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.