Department stores (except discount department stores) · Illinois

Carson's

Mt Prospect, IL · ~204 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carson's runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Department stores (except discount department stores) workplace, earning a grade B.

Carson's: 2.3 TCR = 67% of Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carson's safety composite

Carson's scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2016→2017

Carson's injury rate improved

Carson's's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.7 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 67% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #23/77
  • PHOTO Unit # 2069
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~204 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unit # 2069 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carson's in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carson's averages 2.3 TCR (67% 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 TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=1.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Carson's falls in its industry

1,987 Department stores (except disc establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #23 safest of 77 Department stores (except disc employers in Illinois.

Carson's (204 employees, TCR 2.3) 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
Carson's (204 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Carson'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 1.9 1.9 1 1 0
2016 2.7 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · IL · Mt Prospect

1,987 Department stores (except discount department stores) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 9 employers in Mt Prospect, 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 # 2069 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 2071 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 2827 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garden State Plaza 075 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE William Charles Construction 204 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pella Corporatio - Macomb Operations 204 FTE
STATE-SIZE FXI - West Chicago 204 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeKalb, IL - CN1 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR NTN Bearing Corporation of America (NBCA) - Corporate 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0779 - MOUNT PROSPECT IL WHSE 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR MOUNT PROSPECT IL - 3131 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR 101MTP 46 FTE
NAT-TCR J. Supor & Son Trucking & Rigging Co., Inc.-C&R 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR VF Jeanswear, El Paso Trucking 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Zimmer Biomet Fair Lawn Foundry 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Atrium Post Acute Care of Weston 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE L. Dicks, Inc. 204 FTE
NAT-SIZE Falon 204 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clarksville - 1 Boreham Drive 204 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yellow Dot Heating and Air, LLC 204 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.