All Other General Merchandise Stores · Illinois

1489

Vernon Hills, IL · ~155 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1489 runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical All Other General Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1489: 5.6 TCR = 165% of All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1489 safety composite

1489 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

1489: 2.9 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2022

1489's TCR rose 5.2 from 2.9 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Vernon Hills, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 165% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #52/61
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #293 …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #293 SANDUSKY, OH (0.0 TCR gap)

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1489 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1489 averages 5.6 TCR (165% of the All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1489 TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=8.1 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=8.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 1489 falls in its industry

2,120 All Other General Merchandise establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 61 All Other General Merchandise employers in Illinois.

1489 (155 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1489
1489 (155 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

1489 has more employees than the All Other General Merchandise Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2022 8.1 4.5 8 1 0
2021 5.5 2.7 6 0 0
2020 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2019 8.1 5.4 8 1 0
2018 8.2 5.7 10 0 0
2016 2.9 2.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · IL · Vernon Hills

2,120 All Other General Merchandise Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 65 employers in Vernon Hills, 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 Big Lots Store #293 SANDUSKY, OH 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4576 Machesney Park, IL 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2090 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3291 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Artico Cold Storage Chicago LLC 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Judlau Contracting Inc.- ILL All locations/projects 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Best Chicago Meat 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kerry Melrose Park 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Hills 1,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rust-Oleum 580 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Hills, IL - BCU 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Vernon Hills 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Aerospace Fabrication and Materials 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TMS Mifflin 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 496 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Syncotplastics, Inc 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE ST Engineering Hackney, Inc. 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCM 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleveland Service Center 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-AA-BNA-NASHVILLE-BNA-TRML 155 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.