Garbage collection services · Illinois

Chicago Metro - Damen

Chicago, IL · ~210 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Metro - Damen runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

Chicago Metro - Damen: 5.0 TCR = 192% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Metro - Damen safety composite

Chicago Metro - Damen scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 Metro - Damen: 3.8 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2022

Chicago Metro - Damen's TCR rose 1.1 from 3.8 in 2020 to 4.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 192% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #63/143
  • PHOTO Santa Cruz
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~210 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Santa Cruz (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Metro - Damen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Metro - Damen averages 5.0 TCR (192% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Metro - Damen TCR series: 2020=3.8 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=4.9 · BLS 2.6

Where Chicago Metro - Damen falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #63 safest of 143 Garbage collection services employers in Illinois.

Chicago Metro - Damen (210 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Metro - Damen
Chicago Metro - Damen (210 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Chicago Metro - Damen has more employees than the Garbage collection services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2022 4.9 4.4 10 1 0
2021 6.3 6.3 14 0 0
2020 3.8 3.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IL · Chicago

2,322 Garbage collection 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 Santa Cruz 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services of Charlotte 4784 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 614 - Blytheville 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S02906 - Stockton Scavengers 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Luhr Crosby LLC. 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynomax Inc. D6 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Bearing Corp. 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyster-Yale Group 210 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 Adams - Railroad St. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Industries, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SEABOX Riverton Nj 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0035-0035-01399 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Royal Fresh Cuts 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE 769 - Fresh Meadows 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE B.R. Williams Inc. 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE TruCo Services 210 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, 2021, 2020. 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.