Distribution of electric power · Illinois

Chicago South

Chicago, IL · ~412 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago South runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Distribution of electric power workplace, earning a grade D.

Chicago South: 1.5 TCR = 127% of Distribution of electric power BLS 1.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago South safety composite

Chicago South scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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 South: 0.8 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

Chicago South's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.8 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221122 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.5 · 127% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #26/97
  • PHOTO Clare SC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~412 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clare SC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago South averages 1.5 TCR (127% of the Distribution of electric power BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago South TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 1.2

Where Chicago South falls in its industry

2,958 Distribution of electric power establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 97 Distribution of electric power employers in Illinois.

Chicago South (412 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago South
Chicago South (412 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Chicago South has more employees than the Distribution of electric power median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.5 1.3 6 1 0
2023 2.7 2.0 11 1 0
2022 1.6 1.3 5 2 0
2021 1.8 1.3 6 2 0
2020 1.1 0.8 3 2 0
2019 1.9 1.5 9 0 0
2018 1.3 0.6 6 0 0
2017 1.1 0.6 5 0 0
2016 0.8 0.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221122 · IL · Chicago

2,958 Distribution of electric power 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 Clare SC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ann Arbor Service Center 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RICH CASTLEWOOD 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR POCSC Pocono Service Center 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3Y US Foods Bensenville 412 FTE
STATE-SIZE 361 412 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 201 412 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1151 KEDZIE SCHEDULED TRANSIT OPERATIONS 412 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 Suhm Spring of Dallas 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Office 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Walls Inc-Greenville 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Teknor Thermoplastic Elastomers, Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC 412 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magruder Hospital 412 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ludlum Measurements, Inc. 412 FTE
NAT-SIZE Messiah Lifeways at Messiah Village 412 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.