Discount Department Stores · Illinois

1924 - Chicago Brickyard

Chicago, IL · ~222 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1924 - Chicago Brickyard runs at 248% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1924 - Chicago Brickyard: 8.4 TCR = 248% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1924 - Chicago Brickyard safety composite

1924 - Chicago Brickyard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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 8.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

1924 - Chicago Brickyard: 0.8 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 20.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

1924 - Chicago Brickyard's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.8 in 2019 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 20.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 248% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #207/220
  • PHOTO 2865 - Spring Grand …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2865 - Spring Grand Parkway North (0.0 TCR gap)

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1924 - Chicago Brickyard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1924 - Chicago Brickyard averages 8.4 TCR (248% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1924 - Chicago Brickyard TCR series: 2019=0.8 · 2021=20.9 · 2022=15.6 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 1924 - Chicago Brickyard falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #207 safest of 220 Discount Department Stores employers in Illinois.

1924 - Chicago Brickyard (222 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 1924 - Chicago Brickyard
1924 - Chicago Brickyard (222 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1924 - Chicago Brickyard 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 4.1 4.1 5 0 0
2023 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 15.6 15.6 3 19 0
2021 20.9 10.8 6 25 0
2019 0.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IL · Chicago

4,991 Discount Department Stores 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 2865 - Spring Grand Parkway North 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 206 - Huber Heights 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2262 - Richland Twp North 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2236 - Phoenix 7th Street and Bell 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Installation Specialists, Inc. 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Engineered Materials : Woodridge 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE AAF Flanders Momence 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE 17 Oakwood 222 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 SHU Diner 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fs-Seton Kyle 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastcastle Place 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fras-le North America 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1890 - Prince Georges Plaza 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1827 - Chantilly 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1750 - Centerville 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2239 - Stone Oak 222 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.