Other Urban Transit Systems · Illinois

135 - Chicago Il

Chicago, IL · ~233 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

135 - Chicago Il runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Other Urban Transit Systems workplace, earning a grade B.

135 - Chicago Il: 3.0 TCR = 68% of Other Urban Transit Systems BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

135 - Chicago Il safety composite

135 - Chicago Il scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2018→2024

135 - Chicago Il injury rate improved

135 - Chicago Il's TCR fell 2.3 from 4.3 in 2018 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.3 · 2020=2.9 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485119 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 68% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #5/13
  • PHOTO 141 Oxnard Ca
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~233 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 141 Oxnard Ca (0.0 TCR gap)

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135 - Chicago Il in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 135 - Chicago Il averages 3.0 TCR (68% of the Other Urban Transit Systems BLS benchmark).

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

135 - Chicago Il TCR series: 2018=4.3 · 2020=2.9 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.5

Where 135 - Chicago Il falls in its industry

179 Other Urban Transit Systems establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 13 Other Urban Transit Systems employers in Illinois.

135 - Chicago Il (233 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 135 - Chicago Il
135 - Chicago Il (233 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 4.0

135 - Chicago Il has more employees than the Other Urban Transit Systems median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 2.0 0.5 4 0 0
2020 2.9 1.7 5 0 0
2018 4.3 2.1 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485119 · IL · Chicago

179 Other Urban Transit Systems 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 141 Oxnard Ca 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 193 - Canby, Or 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 077 - Thousand Oaks Ca 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 283 - Jesse Brown Va, Il 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE INEOS Joliet 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bradley Services, Inc 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE M. Block & Sons Bedford Park 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10D8144 PHARMA CHICAGOLAND DC 233 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 Lawton Ok 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Neal Jr. Roofing, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Skinner Transfer Corp. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Orlando Construction Division 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manitowoc Tool and Machining, LLC 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nauticstar LLC 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8027021 Mars Nutro Kansas City MO 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Fabrics Group, Inc 233 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, 2020, 2018. 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.