Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums · Illinois

Chicago Millard

Chicago, IL · ~131 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Millard runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums workplace, earning a grade D.

Chicago Millard: 4.0 TCR = 191% of Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums BLS 2.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Millard safety composite

Chicago Millard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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 Millard held a steady TCR band

Chicago Millard's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.6 in 2021 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.6 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 191% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #112/153
  • PHOTO Arctic Cooling Systems
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arctic Cooling Systems (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Millard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Millard averages 4.0 TCR (191% of the Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Millard TCR series: 2021=4.6 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 2.1

Where Chicago Millard falls in its industry

2,560 Reconditioning shipping barrel establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #112 safest of 153 Reconditioning shipping barrel employers in Illinois.

Chicago Millard (131 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Millard
Chicago Millard (131 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Chicago Millard has more employees than the Reconditioning shipping barrels and drum median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2024 4.5 1.3 7 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 4 0 0
2022 4.5 2.6 7 0 0
2021 4.6 2.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · IL · Chicago

2,560 Reconditioning shipping barrels and drums 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 Arctic Cooling Systems 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&S Electric, Inc. North 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joplin-12 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BEARD EQUIPMENT COMPANY JACKSONVILLE 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Department of Public Works 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE McHugh Enterprises Inc. 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brieser Construction 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alliance Glazing Technologies 131 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 Grocery Outlet of Grants Pass 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Titusville Rehabilitation and Nursing Center 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hinesville Project 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SRC of Lexington 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Freudenthal Home-Based Health Care 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Air Lines - RSW 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milliken - Hillcrest Plant 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Living - Lake Vista 131 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. 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.