Department stores · Illinois

620 - Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~239 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

620 - Chicago runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Department stores workplace, earning a grade C.

620 - Chicago: 3.6 TCR = 106% of Department stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

620 - Chicago safety composite

620 - Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

620 - Chicago held a steady TCR band

620 - Chicago's TCR held near 0.0 from 3.2 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.2 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 106% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #106/169
  • PHOTO 371 South Arlington
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~239 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 371 South Arlington (0.0 TCR gap)

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620 - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 620 - Chicago averages 3.6 TCR (106% of the Department stores BLS benchmark).

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

620 - Chicago TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=3.2 · BLS 3.4

Where 620 - Chicago falls in its industry

2,917 Department stores establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #106 safest of 169 Department stores employers in Illinois.

620 - Chicago (239 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 620 - Chicago
620 - Chicago (239 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

620 - Chicago has more employees than the Department stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 3.2 0.6 5 0 0
2018 4.3 2.5 7 0 0
2016 3.2 0.5 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · IL · Chicago

2,917 Department stores 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 371 South Arlington 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 505 Wallkill 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 65 - Stratford Square 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 531 - Medford-MA 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office Building (MOB) 239 FTE
STATE-SIZE wenona 239 FTE
STATE-SIZE NSA Rubin Bros LLC 239 FTE
STATE-SIZE Axium Chicago 239 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 Richmond Office 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Daleville 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-ALBIR22 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Unified Industries, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Andis Tool 239 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington (PH) 239 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zoetis Exton - Customer Service 239 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paper Mart 239 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, 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.