Testing laboratories (except medical, veterinary) · Illinois

Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc.

Thornton, IL · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc. runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Testing laboratories (except medical, veterinary) workplace, earning a grade D.

Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc.: 1.0 TCR = 194% of Testing laboratories (except medical, veterinary) BLS 0.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc. safety composite

Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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 Testing Laboratory, Inc.: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541380 · Thornton, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 1.0 · 194% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Phoenix TEQ - Cincin…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Phoenix TEQ - Cincinnati, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc. averages 1.0 TCR (194% of the Testing laboratories (except medical, veterinary) BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.9 · BLS 0.5

Where Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc. falls in its industry

232 Testing laboratories (except m establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Testing laboratories (except m employers in Illinois.

Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc. (33 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc.
Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc. (33 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0

Chicago Testing Laboratory, Inc. has fewer employees than the Testing laboratories (except medical, ve median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.0. 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
2019 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 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

541380 · IL · Thornton

232 Testing laboratories (except medical, veterinary) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 8 employers in Thornton, 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 Phoenix TEQ - Cincinnati, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Janssen Titusville 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arizona Proving Ground 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Element Minneapolis-Bloomington 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Dwight 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Konos 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Farm Shop 208 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Will County Generating Station 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gallagher Asphalt Corporation 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR VILLAGE OF THORNTON 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventura Foods 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roy Zenere Trucking & Excavating Inc. 55 FTE
NAT-TCR Garden View Care Center of Chesterield 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR University of Arizona 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parker Majestic 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR International Converter - Caldwell 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vulcan-Hart - Louisville, KY Plant 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE CWPPA, Inc dba College Works Painting 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylor Morrison Denver Division 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE YMCA Association Services Office 33 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, 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.