General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

Chicago Heights IL

Chicago Heights, IL · ~127 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Heights IL runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Chicago Heights IL: 4.6 TCR = 210% of General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Heights IL safety composite

Chicago Heights IL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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 Heights IL: 1.6 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2024

Chicago Heights IL's TCR rose 6.0 from 1.6 in 2023 to 7.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 210% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #36/78
  • PHOTO Novelart Manufacturi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Novelart Manufacturing Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Heights IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Heights IL averages 4.6 TCR (210% of the General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Heights IL TCR series: 2023=1.6 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Chicago Heights IL falls in its industry

1,651 General Line Grocery Merchant establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #36 safest of 78 General Line Grocery Merchant employers in Illinois.

Chicago Heights IL (127 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Heights IL
Chicago Heights IL (127 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Chicago Heights IL has fewer employees than the General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesaler median and a lower 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
2024 7.6 5.1 12 0 0
2023 1.6 0.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IL · Chicago Heights

1,651 General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, 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 Novelart Manufacturing Company 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jefferson City, MO 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dot Foods, Inc. Burley, ID 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HelloFresh TX (Distribution Center) 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pipe Strong, LLC 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pershing 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Readycare Waukegan 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE PLZ Corp 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Austin North 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NLT Hollywood 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MAPEI - Wildwood 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Creative Millwork of Ohio, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aspire Physical Recovery Center of West Alabama, LLC 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Cable company 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Aluminum Forge 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stagnaro Distributing LLC 127 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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