Auto body shop supplies, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Chicago Parts & Sound

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~74 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Parts & Sound runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Auto body shop supplies, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Chicago Parts & Sound: 1.7 TCR = 78% of Auto body shop supplies, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Parts & Sound safety composite

Chicago Parts & Sound scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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 Parts & Sound: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.28× in 2023

Chicago Parts & Sound's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423120 · Elk Grove Village, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 78% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #9/39
  • PHOTO SMP-VIR Disputanta
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SMP-VIR Disputanta (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Parts & Sound in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Parts & Sound averages 1.7 TCR (78% of the Auto body shop supplies, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Parts & Sound TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.8 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Chicago Parts & Sound falls in its industry

950 Auto body shop supplies, merch establishments

Safer than 87% 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 #9 safest of 39 Auto body shop supplies, merch employers in Illinois.

Chicago Parts & Sound (74 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Parts & Sound
Chicago Parts & Sound (74 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Chicago Parts & Sound has more employees than the Auto body shop supplies, merchant wholes median and a lower 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
2023 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2022 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2020 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2018 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423120 · IL · Elk Grove Village

950 Auto body shop supplies, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, 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 SMP-VIR Disputanta 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parts Authority Total Yonkers 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 17-Denver 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WAI - South Carolina 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience LLC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Normandy Construction Co. Inc 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE 105652 - Cass County Solar 150 MW AC 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR creative werks, LLC 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL008 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR 605 Companies Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fidelity-2 Destiny 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2654 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Commercial HVAC Americas : SVC-California Southwest Hawaii : SVC-Los Angeles CA-USA 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Golf Mt. Dell Parleys Canyon 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (44) 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloomer Trailer Mfg., Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE R&D Maintenance Services, Inc. (TTW) 74 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: 2023, 2022, 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.