Food Service Contractors · Illinois

Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES

Blue Island, IL · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.3
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES runs at 411% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Service Contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES: 12.3 TCR = 411% of Food Service Contractors BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES safety composite

Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.8

2022→2024

Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES injury rate improved

Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES's TCR fell 10.8 from 17.7 in 2022 to 6.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 17.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=17.7 · 2024=6.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Blue Island, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.3 · 411% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #333/364
  • PHOTO 4021-000005894
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4021-000005894 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES averages 12.3 TCR (411% of the Food Service Contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES TCR series: 2022=17.7 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 3.0

Where Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractors establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #333 safest of 364 Food Service Contractors employers in Illinois.

Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES (29 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES
Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES (29 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cook County SD Number 128 Whittier ES has fewer employees than the Food Service Contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2022 17.7 17.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IL · Blue Island

6,952 Food Service Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 27 employers in Blue Island, 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 4021-000005894 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT LMU CARIBOU COFFEE 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 000019473 PROSPER ISD 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 610817600 NRG STADIUM WAREHOUSE 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grant Park 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR MetroSouth Medical Center 853 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elementary School 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR 130-Chicago South 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Magnesium Casting Company 117 FTE
NAT-TCR Provalet Trash 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cal Gro Pump Service, Inc. 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Eric'sons VA 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Concrete Paving Overhead East (7101) 12.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tewa LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oil States Industries Corporate 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Archer Falls Church 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 875 Old Country Road 29 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, 2022. 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.