General Freight Trucking Local · Illinois

Chicago (Ilcws)

Chicago, IL · ~190 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago (Ilcws) runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General Freight Trucking Local workplace, earning a grade F.

Chicago (Ilcws): 11.9 TCR = 264% of General Freight Trucking Local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago (Ilcws) safety composite

Chicago (Ilcws) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 (Ilcws): 9.9 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2018

Chicago (Ilcws)'s TCR rose 4.3 from 9.9 in 2016 to 14.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 264% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #153/161
  • PHOTO M&M - Medford Operat…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~190 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: M&M - Medford Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago (Ilcws) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago (Ilcws) averages 11.9 TCR (264% of the General Freight Trucking Local BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago (Ilcws) TCR series: 2016=9.9 · 2017=11.6 · 2018=14.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Chicago (Ilcws) falls in its industry

2,784 General Freight Trucking Local establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #153 safest of 161 General Freight Trucking Local employers in Illinois.

Chicago (Ilcws) (190 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago (Ilcws)
Chicago (Ilcws) (190 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Chicago (Ilcws) has more employees than the General Freight Trucking Local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2018 14.2 10.9 26 0 0
2017 11.6 7.7 19 2 0
2016 9.9 7.7 17 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IL · Chicago

2,784 General Freight Trucking Local 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 M&M - Medford Operations 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ward Trucking LLC-Harrisburg 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kwik Trip CT Zone Delivery 867 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Cargo-Cleveland 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Obrien Water Reclamation Plant 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landmarc, LLC 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herff Jones Cap and Gowns Champaign 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herff Jones - Champaign 190 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 Rochester (Nyroc) 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Peapod S&S Cromwell, Ct 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Assisi 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR RSG of NJ - Mt Laurel 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parkwest Medical Camplex 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Living Hourly 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Laboratories 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITT Inc.- Lancaster, USA- IP 190 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.