Discount Department Stores · Illinois

1896 - South Elgin

South Elgin, IL · ~254 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1896 - South Elgin runs at 273% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1896 - South Elgin: 9.3 TCR = 273% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1896 - South Elgin safety composite

1896 - South Elgin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

1896 - South Elgin: 1.6 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 22.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.38× in 2024

1896 - South Elgin's TCR rose 1.9 from 1.6 in 2019 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 22.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · South Elgin, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 273% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #212/220
  • PHOTO 0887 - Baytown
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~254 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0887 - Baytown (0.0 TCR gap)

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1896 - South Elgin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1896 - South Elgin averages 9.3 TCR (273% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1896 - South Elgin TCR series: 2019=1.6 · 2021=16.3 · 2022=22.1 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 1896 - South Elgin falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #212 safest of 220 Discount Department Stores employers in Illinois.

1896 - South Elgin (254 employees, TCR 9.3) 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 1896 - South Elgin
1896 - South Elgin (254 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1896 - South Elgin 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 3.5 3.5 5 0 0
2023 2.9 1.4 4 0 0
2022 22.1 21.4 3 29 0
2021 16.3 9.9 8 15 0
2019 1.6 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IL · South Elgin

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 45 employers in South Elgin, 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 0887 - Baytown 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2776 - LA Central 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 326 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1322 - Florence 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE BT Mount Prospect 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE KONE Center - SBC 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solo Cup Company Urbana 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Aluminum Products Inc 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hoffer Plastics 389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tower Hill Healthcare Center 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR W.B. McCloud & Company, Inc. 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cat I Manufacturing, INC. 193 FTE
NAT-TCR 2776 - LA Central 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0887 - Baytown 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sarasota Dc 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR M1799 Twin Cities 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1519 - Clermont 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2115 - Sacramento Natomas 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1501 - Colorado Springs East 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1411 - Rosemead 254 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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