Packaging industrial design services · Illinois

Chicago Fiber

Chicago, IL · ~98 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Fiber runs at 356% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Packaging industrial design services workplace, earning a grade F.

Chicago Fiber: 1.8 TCR = 356% of Packaging industrial design services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Fiber safety composite

Chicago Fiber scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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 Fiber: 0.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Chicago Fiber's TCR rose 3.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 3.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541420 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 1.8 · 356% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Greif Charlotte
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greif Charlotte (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Fiber in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Fiber averages 1.8 TCR (356% of the Packaging industrial design services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Chicago Fiber TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=3.6 · BLS 0.5

Where Chicago Fiber falls in its industry

25 Packaging industrial design se establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Packaging industrial design se employers in Illinois.

Chicago Fiber (98 employees, TCR 1.8) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 15 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Fiber
Chicago Fiber (98 employees, TCR 1.8) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Chicago Fiber has more employees than the Packaging industrial design services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 3.6 0.0 0 3 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541420 · IL · Chicago

25 Packaging industrial design services 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 Greif Charlotte 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cummins, Inc xEV Integration Center 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif Lavonia 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif Windsor Locks 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Little sisters of the Poor, St. Joseph's Home for the Elderly 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Crossing Living and Rehabilitation Center 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Shore Water Reclamation District 98 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 Motion Systems : Enumclaw 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St Brides Correctional Center 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ProPetro Services -- Rocky Mountain Division 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Engineered Materials : Syracuse 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Motion Systems : Wadsworth 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laham - Hammond Package Center 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Byron Park 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel Technologies Crawfordsville 98 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.