Railroad construction · Illinois

104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track

Chicago, IL · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Railroad construction workplace, earning a grade B.

104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track: 1.5 TCR = 55% of Railroad construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track safety composite

104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.1

2019→2020

104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track injury rate improved

104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track's TCR fell 3.1 from 3.1 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.1 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/23
  • PHOTO Qayaq Construction
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Qayaq Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track averages 1.5 TCR (55% of the Railroad construction BLS benchmark).

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

104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track TCR series: 2019=3.1 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.8

Where 104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track falls in its industry

932 Railroad construction establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 23 Railroad construction employers in Illinois.

104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track (37 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track
104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track (37 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

104150 - CTA Lake and South Main Track has fewer employees than the Railroad construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · IL · Chicago

932 Railroad construction 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 Qayaq Construction 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crofton Construction Services Incorporated 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2810_5352 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7000 W. 206th Street 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curtis Orchard Ltd 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscola 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Seed Farms, Inc. - Ursa 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Fleet Facility 37 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 Valley Tool, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR JK Moving & Storage, Inc. - Commercial Business Unit 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 343 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR United Hardware Distributing Co - Corporate Office 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1955 FAMILY FARE,Coldwater FF, LLC #38-2750461 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1586 FAMILY FARE -Gr. Rapids, MI FF, LLC #38-2750461 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calera, AL 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corsicana (BP) 37 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: 2020, 2019. 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.