Local Public Transit · Illinois

1953-4125

Chicago, IL · ~75 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1953-4125 runs at 350% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Local Public Transit workplace, earning a grade F.

1953-4125: 15.8 TCR = 350% of Local Public Transit BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1953-4125 safety composite

1953-4125 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

1953-4125: 10.0 → 17.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 20.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2018

1953-4125's TCR rose 7.1 from 10.0 in 2016 to 17.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 20.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 15.8 · 350% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #131/137
  • PHOTO San Diego Metropolit…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (0.0 TCR gap)

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1953-4125 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1953-4125 averages 15.8 TCR (350% of the Local Public Transit BLS benchmark).

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

1953-4125 TCR series: 2016=10 · 2017=20.3 · 2018=17 · BLS 4.5

Where 1953-4125 falls in its industry

421 Local Public Transit establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #131 safest of 137 Local Public Transit employers in Illinois.

1953-4125 (75 employees, TCR 15.8) 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 1953-4125
1953-4125 (75 employees, TCR 15.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

1953-4125 has fewer 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 17.0 9.6 16 0 0
2017 20.3 18.0 18 0 0
2016 10.0 6.0 10 0 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 San Diego Metropolitan Transit System 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Division 9 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority - North Division 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1953-4056 16.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kankakee Nursery Co. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenhouse 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois American Water (Chicago Metro) 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haier Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 75 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 Emmett Mill 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Specialty Care 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Middletown Police Department 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR East Penn Smithfield Warehouse 15.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Craig HomeCare-St.Louis 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creative Business Interiors 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE AES Shady Point 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nevada Office 75 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.