Employer · Illinois

Chicago Dryer Co

Chicago, IL · ~186 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Chicago Dryer Co runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Chicago Dryer Co: 5.3 TCR = 159% of industry BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Dryer Co safety composite

Chicago Dryer Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Chicago Dryer Co: 0.1 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Chicago Dryer Co's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.1 in 2018 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333318 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #24/28
  • PHOTO HDQT3-Frohring Build…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 78 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HDQT3-Frohring Building 3 Newbury, OH (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Illinois employers → · Look up another →

Chicago Dryer Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Dryer Co averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Dryer Co TCR series: 2018=0.1 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=4 · 2022=13.6 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Dryer Co falls in its industry

361 industry establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 28 industry employers in Illinois.

Chicago Dryer Co (186 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Dryer Co
Chicago Dryer Co (186 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Chicago Dryer Co has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 5.1 4.1 10 0 0
2023 6.6 2.2 12 0 0
2022 13.6 6.8 18 0 0
2021 4.0 3.2 5 0 0
2020 3.7 1.6 7 0 0
2019 3.5 1.5 7 0 0
2018 0.1 0.1 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333318 · IL · Chicago

361 industry 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 HDQT3-Frohring Building 3 Newbury, OH 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Suez WTS Services USA, Inc. SJSC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Wittern Group 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WESTERN STATE DESIGN, INC. 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henson Robinson Company 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlas Crane Service, Inc. 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dutch American Foods Inc.- Beecher 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHICAGO (51ST STREET) IL 186 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 East Coast Lumber & Building Supply Company Co., LLC. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Seminole Square 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Robert Bosch LLC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bear Down Brands, LLC 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Weston Investment Co LLC 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE 224 - Marburg Ave - Cincinnati 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE 291 - Sturgis MI 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Job Haines Home 186 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, 2018. 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.