Apparel findings and trimmings cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors) · Illinois

Chicago Protective Apparel

Name: Chicago Protective Apparel Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Skokie, IL · ~111 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Chicago Protective Apparel runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Apparel findings and trimmings cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors) workplace, earning a grade C.

Chicago Protective Apparel: 3.1 TCR = 93% of Apparel findings and trimmings cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Protective Apparel safety composite

Chicago Protective Apparel scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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).

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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 Protective Apparel: 1.0 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2019

Chicago Protective Apparel's TCR rose 5.2 from 1.0 in 2017 to 6.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 315990 · Skokie, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

DART 0.9 DART
RANK #5/7
PHOTO Sayre Enterprises
BOOK 3y book
INJ 10 inj
SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sayre Enterprises (0.2 TCR gap)

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John Tillman C

3.4
Badger Sportsw

3.4
Sayre Enterpri

3.3
This site

3.1
Showa Best Glo

2.8

What this shows Chicago Protective Apparel averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the Apparel findings and trimmings cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors) BLS benchmark).

Chicago Protective Apparel TCR series: 2017=1 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Protective Apparel falls in its industry

62 Apparel findings and trimmings establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Apparel findings and trimmings employers in Illinois.

Chicago Protective Apparel (111 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Chicago Protective Apparel has more employees than the Apparel findings and trimmings cut and s median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2019	6.3	0.9	7
2018	1.9	0.0	2
2017	1.0	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

315990 · IL · Skokie

62 Apparel findings and trimmings cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 117 employers in Skokie, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Sayre Enterprises	BUENA VISTA, VA	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Showa Best Glove	MENLO, GA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	John Tillman Company (DBA Tillman Compton)	COMPTON, CA	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Badger Sportswear	STATESVILLE, NC	3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Powerton Station	PEKIN	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NG Bellwood Reporting Center	BELLWOOD	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Contegra Holdings, Inc. and Subsidiaries	EDWARDSVILLE	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Stenstrom Excavation and Blacktop Group	ROCKFORD	111 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Federal-Mogul Corporation	Skokie	1,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Skokie Campus	Skokie	1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Federal Mogul	Skokie	1,123 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SKOKIE HOSPITAL	Skokie	992 FTE
NAT-TCR	Water Administration Building	Cedar Rapids, IA	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kaman's Art Shoppes, Inc. KD 73	Doswell, VA	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Talladega Hatchery	Munford, AL	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chromalox Inc. - Lavergne	Lavergne, TN	3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Arlingtion Distribution Center	Arlington, TX	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Feld Entertainment - MUL	Vienna, VA	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Struktol Company of America, LLC	Stow, OH	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Phoenix Closures, Inc.	Greencastle, IN	111 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.