General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

Chicago IL

Chicago, IL · ~3,636 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago IL runs at 1% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Chicago IL: 0.0 TCR = 1% of General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago IL safety composite

Chicago IL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

85/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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%).

Chicago IL held a steady TCR band

Chicago IL's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.1 · 2017=0.1 · 2018=0.1 · 2019=0.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.0 · 1% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/78
  • PHOTO Elmhurst Specialty S…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~3,636 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elmhurst Specialty Sales Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago IL averages 0.0 TCR (1% 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 IL TCR series: 2016=0.1 · 2017=0.1 · 2018=0.1 · 2019=0.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Chicago IL falls in its industry

1,651 General Line Grocery Merchant establishments

Safer than 100% 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 #1 safest of 78 General Line Grocery Merchant employers in Illinois.

Chicago IL (3,636 employees, TCR 0.0) 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago IL
Chicago IL (3,636 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Chicago IL has more 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.1 0.0 3 0 0
2017 0.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.1 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IL · Chicago

1,651 General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers 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 Elmhurst Specialty Sales Office 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sysco 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Region Sales Office 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salt Lake City 4H 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6894-68940034 3,583 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indian Prairie School District 3,568 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORDPW9646 ORD - OTHER PAX SERV 3,545 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belvidere Assembly Plant 3,525 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 CGO 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Automotive Rentals Inc - Technology & Innovation Center 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Headquarters 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Austin Co. 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Department of General Services 3,631 FTE
NAT-SIZE BOS Logan Int'l Airport 3,642 FTE
NAT-SIZE Queens 3,642 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morton Plant Hospital (2100) 3,648 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.