Discount Department Stores · Illinois

1176 - Arlington Heights

Arlington Heights, IL · ~245 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1176 - Arlington Heights runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1176 - Arlington Heights: 4.7 TCR = 138% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1176 - Arlington Heights safety composite

1176 - Arlington Heights scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

1176 - Arlington Heights held a steady TCR band

1176 - Arlington Heights's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.8 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.8 · 2022=11.3 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Arlington Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 138% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #146/220
  • PHOTO 2146 - Coral Springs
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~245 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2146 - Coral Springs (0.0 TCR gap)

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1176 - Arlington Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1176 - Arlington Heights averages 4.7 TCR (138% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1176 - Arlington Heights TCR series: 2019=2.8 · 2022=11.3 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 1176 - Arlington Heights falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #146 safest of 220 Discount Department Stores employers in Illinois.

1176 - Arlington Heights (245 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 1176 - Arlington Heights
1176 - Arlington Heights (245 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1176 - Arlington Heights 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 2.9 2.9 3 0 0
2023 1.8 1.8 1 1 0
2022 11.3 11.3 3 10 0
2019 2.8 2.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IL · Arlington Heights

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 121 employers in Arlington Heights, 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 2146 - Coral Springs 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #0318 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1758 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 320 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office Building 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE K-Five Construction Corporation 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE NSA Chicago 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Dearborn Headquarters 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwest Community Hospital 3,365 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARLINGTON HEIGHTS SCHOOL DISTRICT 25 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4813-48130002-ENCORE CHICAGO 845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Home and Serv For The Aged 796 FTE
NAT-TCR 2146 - Coral Springs 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR HBS Spangler Grill 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR U of NM - La Posada 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Ohio Forklifts 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1135 - Oxford Valley 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1752 - Sandy South Towne 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0532 - Papillion 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1153 - Brick 245 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.