Freight Trucking LTL · Illinois

304 Chicago West

Montgomery, IL · ~96 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

304 Chicago West runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Freight Trucking LTL workplace, earning a grade D.

304 Chicago West: 6.1 TCR = 135% of Freight Trucking LTL BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

304 Chicago West safety composite

304 Chicago West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.1

2016→2018

304 Chicago West injury rate improved

304 Chicago West's TCR fell 1.1 from 6.6 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.6 · 2018=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Montgomery, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 135% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #78/177
  • PHOTO XDP
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XDP (0.0 TCR gap)

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304 Chicago West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 304 Chicago West averages 6.1 TCR (135% of the Freight Trucking LTL BLS benchmark).

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

304 Chicago West TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2018=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where 304 Chicago West falls in its industry

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #78 safest of 177 Freight Trucking LTL employers in Illinois.

304 Chicago West (96 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 304 Chicago West
304 Chicago West (96 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

304 Chicago West has more employees than the Freight Trucking LTL median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 5.5 4.4 5 0 0
2016 6.6 4.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IL · Montgomery

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Montgomery, 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 XDP 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 029 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gateway Distribution LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNC - Syracuse Depot 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience UTI1 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLM Midwest 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Toro Construction Corp 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lytle Electric Company 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora Facility 1,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carl Buddig & Company-Montgomery 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foodservice Chicago - 0785 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Chicago - 0785 413 FTE
NAT-TCR Griffin Insulation & Drywall 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas RTS 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Malin International Ship Repair & Drydock, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rehme Steel Windows & Doors 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Senior Care of Corpus Christi 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trisun Care Center Lakeside 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE B-XII Plymouth LLC 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conrad Aluminum Shipyard 96 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.