Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Illinois

CBSL Transportation Services Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CBSL Transportation Services Chicago runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

CBSL Transportation Services Chicago: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CBSL Transportation Services Chicago safety composite

CBSL Transportation Services Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

CBSL Transportation Services Chicago: 3.1 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2023

CBSL Transportation Services Chicago's TCR rose 5.2 from 3.1 in 2022 to 8.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #118/143
  • PHOTO Jaro Transportation …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jaro Transportation Services Inc-Warren (0.0 TCR gap)

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CBSL Transportation Services Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CBSL Transportation Services Chicago averages 5.7 TCR (126% of the Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

CBSL Transportation Services Chicago TCR series: 2022=3.1 · 2023=8.3 · BLS 4.5

Where CBSL Transportation Services Chicago falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #118 safest of 143 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Illinois.

CBSL Transportation Services Chicago (50 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate CBSL Transportation Services Chicago
CBSL Transportation Services Chicago (50 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

CBSL Transportation Services Chicago has fewer employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 8.3 8.3 4 0 0
2022 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IL · Chicago

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) 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 Jaro Transportation Services Inc-Warren 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Three Way Logistics Harris Branch 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NC Terminal - Patriot Transport Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Go-To Transport, Inc. 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Champaign CMI1 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1240-Monmouth, IL 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Constellation Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Storage 50 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 3 Day Blinds LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Springstone, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR DD - Design District 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TPC Inc dba Tavares Pediatric Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sault Tribe Health and Human Services 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoppe Technologies, Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Castro-Mission Health Center 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Dairy Transport-Hyrum 50 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.