Local Public Transit · Illinois

1953-1131

Chicago, IL · ~649 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1953-1131 runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Local Public Transit workplace, earning a grade F.

1953-1131: 10.3 TCR = 230% of Local Public Transit BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1953-1131 safety composite

1953-1131 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−3.1

2016→2018

1953-1131 injury rate improved

1953-1131's TCR fell 3.1 from 11.4 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.4 · 2017=11.2 · 2018=8.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485111 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 230% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #99/137
  • PHOTO 4125 IRONWORKERS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 148 inj
  • SIZE ~649 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4125 IRONWORKERS (0.0 TCR gap)

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1953-1131 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1953-1131 averages 10.3 TCR (230% of the Local Public Transit BLS benchmark).

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

1953-1131 TCR series: 2016=11.4 · 2017=11.2 · 2018=8.4 · BLS 4.5

Where 1953-1131 falls in its industry

421 Local Public Transit establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #99 safest of 137 Local Public Transit employers in Illinois.

1953-1131 (649 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 1953-1131
1953-1131 (649 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

1953-1131 has more employees than the Local Public Transit median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2018 8.4 7.3 40 7 0
2017 11.2 10.7 53 10 0
2016 11.4 11.3 55 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485111 · IL · Chicago

421 Local Public Transit 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 4125 IRONWORKERS 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1151 KEDZIE SCHEDULED TRANSIT OPERATIONS 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4092 MACHINISTS 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Division 14 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glanbia Performance Nutrition 948 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Company 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE WHQ 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraft Heinz Innovation Center 650 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 Cruiser RV Plant 201 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Odwalla-Anaheim 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonesta ES Suites Cleveland Airport 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Morningside of Sumter 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bio-Rad Laboratories Benicia Campus 649 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orthofix Inc. 649 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miller Industries 649 FTE
NAT-SIZE TTM Technologies Chippewa Falls 649 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.