Department stores (except discount department stores) · Illinois

Bergner's

Forsyth, IL · ~63 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bergner's runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Department stores (except discount department stores) workplace, earning a grade A.

Bergner's: 1.5 TCR = 44% of Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bergner's safety composite

Bergner's scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Bergner's: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2017

Bergner's's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Forsyth, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 44% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #11/77
  • PHOTO Elder Beerman
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elder Beerman (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bergner's in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bergner's averages 1.5 TCR (44% of the Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS benchmark).

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

Bergner's TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3 · BLS 3.4

Where Bergner's falls in its industry

1,987 Department stores (except disc establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 77 Department stores (except disc employers in Illinois.

Bergner's (63 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bergner's
Bergner's (63 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Bergner's has more employees than the Department stores (except discount depar median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2017 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · IL · Forsyth

1,987 Department stores (except discount department stores) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Forsyth, 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 Elder Beerman 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Location - #191 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 0582 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0311 Gallatin 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waterman, IL-STC 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hinsdale Nurseries, Inc. Plano 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE 40L - IL Relay & Ops 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water/Public Works, Public Utiities 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR FORSYTH IL - 3060 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Point Christian Village 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-0245 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0245 LOWE S OF DECATUR IL 124 FTE
NAT-TCR Titan Global, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Simonton Windows: Ellenboro, WV 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4028-AZ000 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Laurel Office EN3Q 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Potosi Manor Inc 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Platte City Inc 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodward Printing Services/GIL Shopping News 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham 63 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: 2017, 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.