Freight Trucking LTL · Illinois

309 Chicago

Chicago Heights, IL · ~1,341 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

309 Chicago runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Freight Trucking LTL workplace, earning a grade D.

309 Chicago: 7.1 TCR = 158% of Freight Trucking LTL BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

309 Chicago safety composite

309 Chicago scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 42% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 0% 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

309 Chicago: 6.6 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2018

309 Chicago's TCR rose 0.9 from 6.6 in 2016 to 7.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 158% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #100/177
  • PHOTO NJV
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 183 inj
  • SIZE ~1,341 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NJV (0.0 TCR gap)

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309 Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 309 Chicago averages 7.1 TCR (158% of the Freight Trucking LTL BLS benchmark).

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

309 Chicago TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2018=7.6 · BLS 4.5

Where 309 Chicago falls in its industry

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #100 safest of 177 Freight Trucking LTL employers in Illinois.

309 Chicago (1,341 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 309 Chicago
309 Chicago (1,341 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

309 Chicago 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 7.6 4.3 97 2 1
2016 6.6 4.4 86 1 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IL · Chicago Heights

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, 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 NJV 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oak Harbor - SCA/NV - 030 - FRE 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6284-YR-621 YT 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DOT TERM 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chicago Cubs Baseball Club LLC 1,342 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Springfield 1,344 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walgreens Distribution Center 1,345 FTE
STATE-SIZE Naperville Ill 1,349 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Heights IL FXFE-CGT 402 FTE
NAT-TCR The Bridge of Orlando 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JX Peterbilt - Madison 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pilot-Catskill 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Montgomeryville 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hopewell 1,341 FTE
NAT-SIZE MTD Consumer Group Martin 1,341 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dietz and Watson 1,341 FTE
NAT-SIZE Memphis - 5155 Lamar Avenue 1,341 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.