Employer · Illinois

AIC The Cafe

Chicago, IL · ~32 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AIC The Cafe runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

AIC The Cafe: 1.0 TCR = 32% of industry BLS 3.0 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AIC The Cafe safety composite

AIC The Cafe scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

AIC The Cafe held a steady TCR band

AIC The Cafe's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/364
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT GRACEDALE …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT GRACEDALE COUNTY HOME (0.0 TCR gap)

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AIC The Cafe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AIC The Cafe averages 1.0 TCR (32% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

AIC The Cafe TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.0

Where AIC The Cafe falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 364 industry employers in Illinois.

AIC The Cafe (32 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate AIC The Cafe
AIC The Cafe (32 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

AIC The Cafe has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IL · Chicago

6,952 industry 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 SODEXO AT GRACEDALE COUNTY HOME 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR George School 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fred Hutchinson 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WBG MC Building 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Department 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - AIC Gas Corrosion 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Ottawa Reporting Center 32 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 Newseum Catering 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KHA 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Head Start-South Point 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Axcelis Beverly 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pottsgrove Schl Dist * 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Notre Dame DeNamur 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE 30 RCT Springfield 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Montalvo Corporation 32 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.