Specialized Freight Trucking · Illinois

Chicago - Argo

Argo, IL · ~23 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago - Argo runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Specialized Freight Trucking workplace, earning a grade B.

Chicago - Argo: 3.1 TCR = 69% of Specialized Freight Trucking BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago - Argo safety composite

Chicago - Argo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

Chicago - Argo: 0.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Chicago - Argo's TCR rose 4.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484220 · Argo, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 69% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/50
  • PHOTO summit concrete inc
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: summit concrete inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago - Argo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago - Argo averages 3.1 TCR (69% of the Specialized Freight Trucking BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago - Argo TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=10.3 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Chicago - Argo falls in its industry

1,130 Specialized Freight Trucking establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 50 Specialized Freight Trucking employers in Illinois.

Chicago - Argo (23 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago - Argo
Chicago - Argo (23 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Chicago - Argo has fewer employees than the Specialized Freight Trucking median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2024 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.3 10.3 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484220 · IL · Argo

1,130 Specialized Freight Trucking employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 4 employers in Argo, 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 summit concrete inc 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transystems LLC - Drayton Project 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advantage Tank Lines 20054 Somerset 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR WFS Alta Pueblo 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Argo Terminal 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Argo 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weldbend Corporation 90 FTE
NAT-TCR Afton Trucking, Inc 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 205 S. Ocean Avenue Ste. A 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Air Squared 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 02011-02-02-SACRAMENTO 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jerry'sDo It Best Hardware Eden - 5217 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ecumen Pines 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 969 Ola49 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 751 Oak30 23 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.