Local Public Transit · Illinois

1953-1181

Chicago, IL · ~539 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1953-1181 runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Local Public Transit workplace, earning a grade D.

1953-1181: 8.4 TCR = 186% of Local Public Transit BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1953-1181 safety composite

1953-1181 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−2.2

2016→2018

1953-1181 injury rate improved

1953-1181's TCR fell 2.2 from 9.0 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.0 · 2017=9.4 · 2018=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.4 · 186% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #73/137
  • PHOTO MID-SOUTH TRANSPORTA…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 113 inj
  • SIZE ~539 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MID-SOUTH TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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1953-1181 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1953-1181 averages 8.4 TCR (186% of the Local Public Transit BLS benchmark).

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

1953-1181 TCR series: 2016=9 · 2017=9.4 · 2018=6.7 · BLS 4.5

Where 1953-1181 falls in its industry

421 Local Public Transit establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #73 safest of 137 Local Public Transit employers in Illinois.

1953-1181 (539 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 1953-1181
1953-1181 (539 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

1953-1181 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 6.7 6.3 30 3 0
2017 9.4 9.0 44 2 0
2016 9.0 9.0 39 5 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 MID-SOUTH TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT INC 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1953-1171 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1953-2212 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elmonica 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taylor Commercial Foodservice, Inc. 539 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bolingbrook HQ 539 FTE
STATE-SIZE Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center 539 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sacred Heart Medical Center 540 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 Life Care Center of Camellia Gardens 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TI Group Automotive, LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Siouxland Paramedics, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TrueNorth Steel 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Production 539 FTE
NAT-SIZE Los Angeles Airport Marriott 539 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 539 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oncor Electric Delivery Distribution Operations Western Region 539 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.