Hose, industrial, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Chicago

University Park, IL · ~27 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hose, industrial, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Chicago: 1.3 TCR = 58% of Hose, industrial, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago safety composite

Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.39× in 2024

Chicago's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · University Park, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 58% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #9/28
  • PHOTO Wear-Con
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wear-Con (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago averages 1.3 TCR (58% of the Hose, industrial, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Chicago falls in its industry

589 Hose, industrial, merchant who establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #9 safest of 28 Hose, industrial, merchant who employers in Illinois.

Chicago (27 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago
Chicago (27 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Chicago has fewer employees than the Hose, industrial, merchant wholesalers 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 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2022 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · IL · University Park

589 Hose, industrial, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 49 employers in University Park, 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 Wear-Con 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solve Industrial Motion Group 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walter Windsor 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Twin Cities - Baldwin Supply 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pizzo Native Plant Nursery, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE C070 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-R&D 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloomington 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - IGQ2 1,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Signal Corp (University Park) 490 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Signal Safety & Security Systems Group 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amex Nooter 407 FTE
NAT-TCR Faustina 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR RJ Schinner Branch 12 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerber Wood Products 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR McCarthy Tire Service #44 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Centrio Energy 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloom Network 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE LeafGuard of Dallas 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carson City Grocery Outlet Bargain Market 27 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. 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.