Employer · Illinois

121 - Chicago Bev

Chicago, IL · ~278 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

121 - Chicago Bev runs at 430% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

121 - Chicago Bev: 9.5 TCR = 430% of industry BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

121 - Chicago Bev safety composite

121 - Chicago Bev scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

121 - Chicago Bev: 7.0 → 10.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

121 - Chicago Bev's TCR rose 3.5 from 7.0 in 2021 to 10.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 430% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #16/24
  • PHOTO Certo Brothers
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 103 inj
  • SIZE ~278 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Certo Brothers (0.0 TCR gap)

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121 - Chicago Bev in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 121 - Chicago Bev averages 9.5 TCR (430% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

121 - Chicago Bev TCR series: 2021=7 · 2022=12.5 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 2.2

Where 121 - Chicago Bev falls in its industry

664 industry establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 24 industry employers in Illinois.

121 - Chicago Bev (278 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 121 - Chicago Bev
121 - Chicago Bev (278 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

121 - Chicago Bev has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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 10.5 9.5 32 0 0
2023 7.9 5.0 20 2 0
2022 12.5 11.8 33 2 0
2021 7.0 5.8 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · IL · Chicago

664 industry 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 Certo Brothers 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura County 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grey Eagle - Fenton 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Distributing Spokane 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CHRIST BROS. ASPHALT, INC. 278 FTE
STATE-SIZE El Milagro Inc. Western 278 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bison Gear and Engineering 278 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thyssenkrupp Crankshaft LLC 278 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 TXH091 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH067 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TXD030 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CAL018 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2012 - Orange 278 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corby Energy Services, Inc. 278 FTE
NAT-SIZE USPL Nutritionals LLC 278 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palo Alto County Health System 278 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.