Employer · Illinois

Czarnowski-Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~101 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Czarnowski-Chicago runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Czarnowski-Chicago: 1.1 TCR = 32% of industry BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Czarnowski-Chicago safety composite

Czarnowski-Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Czarnowski-Chicago held a steady TCR band

Czarnowski-Chicago's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.4 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.4 · 2018=2.0 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=1.0 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #6/31
  • PHOTO Sign Acquisition LLC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sign Acquisition LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Czarnowski-Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Czarnowski-Chicago averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Czarnowski-Chicago TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2018=2 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=1 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Czarnowski-Chicago falls in its industry

405 industry establishments

Safer than 90% 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 #6 safest of 31 industry employers in Illinois.

Czarnowski-Chicago (101 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Czarnowski-Chicago
Czarnowski-Chicago (101 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Czarnowski-Chicago has more employees than the industry median and a lower 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 1.3 0.6 2 0 0
2023 1.1 0.6 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2020 1.0 1.0 0 1 0
2019 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 2.0 2.0 4 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · IL · Chicago

405 industry 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 Sign Acquisition LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atomic Cowgirl Inc 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Derse Las Vegas 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boyd Sign Systems, LLC 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Gas Ops 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE DGIL 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brandt Construction Co. 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE MS - Mossville, IL - 1MOI2 (CATERPILLAR COE) 101 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 York Vehicle Operations 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR County of Harnett-GIS/Tax/ROD 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR SWZ Services, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR West Point Foundry & Machine Co. 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE La-Canasta Mexican Food Products, Inc. 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0712 Madison 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Insulation - Main Office 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0761 Sarasota 101 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, 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.