Discount Department Stores · Illinois

1070 - Waukegan

Waukegan, IL · ~129 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1070 - Waukegan runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1070 - Waukegan: 4.4 TCR = 130% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1070 - Waukegan safety composite

1070 - Waukegan scores safer than 50% of same-industry peers on total case rate (tcr), blended into one 0-100 breakdown. 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

1070 - Waukegan: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

1070 - Waukegan's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2019 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 130% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #134/220
  • PHOTO 0647 - Altamonte Spr…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0647 - Altamonte Springs (0.0 TCR gap)

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1070 - Waukegan in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1070 - Waukegan averages 4.4 TCR (130% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1070 - Waukegan TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 1070 - Waukegan falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #134 safest of 220 Discount Department Stores employers in Illinois.

1070 - Waukegan (129 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1070 - Waukegan
1070 - Waukegan (129 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1070 - Waukegan has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a lower 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 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2023 7.7 4.6 5 0 0
2022 7.3 7.3 5 0 0
2021 5.5 4.2 1 3 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IL · Waukegan

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 141 employers in Waukegan, 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 0647 - Altamonte Springs 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1381 - Mansfield 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1437 - Chicago Mid North 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2161 - Bainbridge 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coffeen Power Station 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advantage Contractor Solutions 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Utility LLC 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Battaglia Industries, Inc. 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukegan PSD #60 2,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista Medical Center 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visual Pak Waukegan 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Blending & Filling 793 FTE
NAT-TCR 1381 - Mansfield 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0647 - Altamonte Springs 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2161 - Bainbridge 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2550 - Wylie 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1073 - Carrollton 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1116 - Grand Prairie 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1017 - Chester 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0990 - Lancaster 129 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, 2021, 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.