Department stores (except discount department stores) · Illinois

Carson's 539

Norridge, IL · ~222 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carson's 539 runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Department stores (except discount department stores) workplace, earning a grade A.

Carson's 539: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carson's 539 safety composite

Carson's 539 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

Carson's 539 held a steady TCR band

Carson's 539's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.7 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.7 · 2017=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Norridge, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #2/77
  • PHOTO Unit # 0218
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unit # 0218 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carson's 539 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carson's 539 averages 0.7 TCR (21% 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

Carson's 539 TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=0.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Carson's 539 falls in its industry

1,987 Department stores (except disc establishments

Safer than 98% 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 #2 safest of 77 Department stores (except disc employers in Illinois.

Carson's 539 (222 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Carson's 539
Carson's 539 (222 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Carson's 539 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 0.7 0.7 0 1 0
2016 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · IL · Norridge

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 Norridge, 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 Unit # 0218 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 2284 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 0579 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 1128 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Installation Specialists, Inc. 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Engineered Materials : Woodridge 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE AAF Flanders Momence 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE 17 Oakwood 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norridge Gardens 247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Baptist Village 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1888 - Norridge 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norridge Park District 199 FTE
NAT-TCR Buckhead Meat of North Carolina 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aerospace-York 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Penske : 3192-00 Whirlpool/Seattle, WA 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR AmNav - Oakland 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wagner Industrial Electric 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bernhard MCC L.L.C. FL 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2073-EJ-20730180-MX 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun Prairie Plant/Office/Garage 222 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.

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