Retail · Illinois

178 - Aurora

Aurora, IL · ~220 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

178 - Aurora runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail workplace, earning a grade C.

178 - Aurora: 3.1 TCR = 92% of Retail BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

178 - Aurora safety composite

178 - Aurora scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−4.4

2021→2024

178 - Aurora injury rate improved

178 - Aurora's TCR fell 4.4 from 7.2 in 2021 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=7.2 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 455211 · Aurora, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #18/46
  • PHOTO 160 - Hurstbourne Pkwy
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~220 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 160 - Hurstbourne Pkwy (0.0 TCR gap)

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178 - Aurora in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 178 - Aurora averages 3.1 TCR (92% of the Retail BLS benchmark).

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

178 - Aurora TCR series: 2021=7.2 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=2 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 178 - Aurora falls in its industry

1,491 Retail establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 46 Retail employers in Illinois.

178 - Aurora (220 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 100200300400500600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 178 - Aurora
178 - Aurora (220 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 employees and a TCR of 4.8

178 - Aurora has fewer employees than the Retail median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 2.8 2.8 4 0 0
2023 2.0 0.7 3 0 0
2022 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2021 7.2 4.2 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

455211 · IL · Aurora

1,491 Retail employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 325 employers in Aurora, 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 160 - Hurstbourne Pkwy 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 313 - Sycamore 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 660-00624 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 701-00439 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brock Services Midwest Area 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Royal Box Cicero 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Labelmark Co Inc 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weber Packaging Solutions, Inc 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indian Prairie School District 204 3,309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Factor Aurora 2,167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rush Copley Medical Center, Inc. 2,163 FTE
CITY-NEAR ANDY FRAIN SERVICES INC 2,100 FTE
NAT-TCR SpartaCraft Inc., 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Jamestown North America 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sprout California 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bethune 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 109 - Commerce 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside Electronics ltd 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSM nutritional products Kingstree 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alliance Machine Systems International LLC 220 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.