General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL · Illinois

CHI-ODFL

Chicago, IL · ~314 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CHI-ODFL runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL workplace, earning a grade C.

CHI-ODFL: 5.1 TCR = 113% of General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CHI-ODFL safety composite

CHI-ODFL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

CHI-ODFL: 3.9 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2022

CHI-ODFL's TCR rose 0.6 from 3.9 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 113% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #55/177
  • PHOTO NTH
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 108 inj
  • SIZE ~314 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NTH (0.0 TCR gap)

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CHI-ODFL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CHI-ODFL averages 5.1 TCR (113% of the General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL BLS benchmark).

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

CHI-ODFL TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where CHI-ODFL falls in its industry

3,020 General Freight Trucking, long establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 177 General Freight Trucking, long employers in Illinois.

CHI-ODFL (314 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate CHI-ODFL
CHI-ODFL (314 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

CHI-ODFL has more employees than the General Freight Trucking, long-distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2022 4.5 4.5 16 0 0
2021 5.5 4.2 20 0 0
2020 3.7 2.4 11 0 0
2019 5.7 4.3 21 0 0
2018 7.3 4.2 28 0 0
2016 3.9 2.6 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IL · Chicago

3,020 General Freight Trucking, long-distance, LTL 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 NTH 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR UAQ 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SHM 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond RMD 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fuchs Lubricants Co., Harvey 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARMSTRONG FLOORING, INC - KANKAKEE 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colony Display 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUMMIT CHICAGO METRO DC EmpWorkCtrCd 30000596 314 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 Bellevue Medical Center 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Trudell Trailers of Milwaukee, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4192-00051423-LVG 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Arc3 Gases Industrial Gas Division 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Buckingham Mfg. Co. Inc. 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brentwood Rail Facility 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phillips-Medisize, LLC - St. Croix Meadows 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luminator Technology Group Inc. Plano 314 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.