Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) · Illinois

#197 Art Van Downers Grove

Downers Grove, IL · ~67 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

#197 Art Van Downers Grove runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) workplace, earning a grade F.

#197 Art Van Downers Grove: 6.9 TCR = 202% of Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

#197 Art Van Downers Grove safety composite

#197 Art Van Downers Grove scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

#197 Art Van Downers Grove: 4.8 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2019

#197 Art Van Downers Grove's TCR rose 2.3 from 4.8 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442110 · Downers Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 202% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #68/102
  • PHOTO Split Decision Enter…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Split Decision Enterprises Inc dba Watson's of Grand Rapids (0.0 TCR gap)

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#197 Art Van Downers Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows #197 Art Van Downers Grove averages 6.9 TCR (202% of the Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) BLS benchmark).

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

#197 Art Van Downers Grove TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=11 · 2019=7.1 · BLS 3.4

Where #197 Art Van Downers Grove falls in its industry

2,215 Furniture and appliance stores establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 102 Furniture and appliance stores employers in Illinois.

#197 Art Van Downers Grove (67 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate #197 Art Van Downers Grove
#197 Art Van Downers Grove (67 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

#197 Art Van Downers Grove has more employees than the Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., pr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2019 7.1 4.7 3 0 0
2018 11.0 5.5 6 0 0
2017 4.7 4.7 3 0 0
2016 4.8 2.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · IL · Downers Grove

2,215 Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 139 employers in Downers Grove, 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 Split Decision Enterprises Inc dba Watson's of Grand Rapids 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4535-0222 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR K5-Roosevelt Blvd Showroom 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Springfield, VA 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decatur Cogeneration 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE SWECO - Chicago 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Galesburg 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE 75G - Western S - IL Gas Ops 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Medical Group 5,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Support Centers 2,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital 1,958 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADVOCATE CHILDRENS HOSPITALS 1,734 FTE
NAT-TCR Grand Lake - Resort - Afton 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 1129 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Island Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sysco Oklahoma 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE #34 Art Van Burton 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE #12 Art Van Taylor 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE MRF San Jose 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens Corning Tallmadge Plant 67 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.