Art services, graphic · Illinois

Chicago Laminating Inc

Arlington Heights, IL · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Laminating Inc runs at 1826% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Art services, graphic workplace, earning a grade F.

Chicago Laminating Inc: 9.1 TCR = 1826% of Art services, graphic BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Laminating Inc safety composite

Chicago Laminating Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 Laminating Inc: 3.9 → 14.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2022

Chicago Laminating Inc's TCR rose 10.6 from 3.9 in 2016 to 14.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541430 · Arlington Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 1826% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK P8
  • PHOTO The HR Technology Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The HR Technology Companies, Inc. FLWT: Cirrus Visual Communications., Inc. (1.2 TCR gap)

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Chicago Laminating Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Laminating Inc averages 9.1 TCR (1826% of the Art services, graphic BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Laminating Inc TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2022=14.4 · BLS 0.5

Where Chicago Laminating Inc falls in its industry

13 Art services, graphic establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Chicago Laminating Inc (23 employees, TCR 9.1) among 7 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 8 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate McCullough CreativeModerne Glass Co., Inc.Corporate OfficeOrbus WoodridgeAd Graphics LLCJR Cole Industries, Inc. - Prepress Division/Corporate OfficeCircle Graphics - Richmond DBA World Art GroupChicago Laminating Inc
Chicago Laminating Inc (23 employees, TCR 9.1) among 7 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Chicago Laminating Inc has fewer employees than the Art services, graphic median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2022 14.4 4.8 3 0 0
2016 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541430 · IL · Arlington Heights

13 Art services, graphic employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 121 employers in Arlington 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 The HR Technology Companies, Inc. FLWT: Cirrus Visual Communications., Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ad Graphics LLC 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yellow Frog Graphics 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moderne Glass Co., Inc. 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE PIA UNITED GROUND EXPRESS-PIA 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE MARSEILLES FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE 623010000 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE D1 Eisenhower Yard 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwest Community Hospital 3,365 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARLINGTON HEIGHTS SCHOOL DISTRICT 25 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4813-48130002-ENCORE CHICAGO 845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Home and Serv For The Aged 796 FTE
NAT-TCR HG829 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Midland Garage Door MFG 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HG533 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0019-0018-00580 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dayton NJ 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE George Brown and Sons Glassworks, Inc 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-Pd-Sce-State College-Sce-Pdmt 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life-Skills Inc. Administration Office 23 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: 2022, 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.