General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Chicago Branch

Carol Stream, IL · ~51 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Branch runs at 499% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Chicago Branch: 11.0 TCR = 499% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Branch safety composite

Chicago Branch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 Branch: 7.7 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2022

Chicago Branch's TCR rose 1.9 from 7.7 in 2019 to 9.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Carol Stream, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 499% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #71/78
  • PHOTO US FOODS CHARLOTTE, NC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US FOODS CHARLOTTE, NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Branch averages 11.0 TCR (499% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Branch TCR series: 2019=7.7 · 2020=15.1 · 2021=11.5 · 2022=9.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Chicago Branch falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #71 safest of 78 General-line groceries merchan employers in Illinois.

Chicago Branch (51 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Branch
Chicago Branch (51 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Chicago Branch has fewer employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 9.6 9.6 5 0 0
2021 11.5 9.6 6 0 0
2020 15.1 13.2 7 1 0
2019 7.7 3.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IL · Carol Stream

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 170 employers in Carol Stream, 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 US FOODS CHARLOTTE, NC 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Foods Milwaukee 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUPERVALU DISTRIBUTION CENTER - STOCKTON 32411 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 76 - Lexington 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Larch Farm 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDG 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prince Minerals LLC - QUI 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Quincy 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group 2,151 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Litho, Inc. 1,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161275-CAROL STREAM IL P&DC 960 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods - Carol Stream 853 FTE
NAT-TCR Cadence at Mt. Zion 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Colorado Convention Center 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Connecticut Post Mall 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00639 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Control Micro Systems 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE D.F. Tomasini Contractors, Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Massey Electric, Inc 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bergey's Truck Centers New Castle 51 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. 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.