Vertical Transportation Company · Illinois

D15 Chicago Downtown

Chicago, IL · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D15 Chicago Downtown runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Vertical Transportation Company workplace, earning a grade C.

D15 Chicago Downtown: 2.6 TCR = 94% of Vertical Transportation Company BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D15 Chicago Downtown safety composite

D15 Chicago Downtown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

D15 Chicago Downtown held a steady TCR band

D15 Chicago Downtown's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.8 in 2019 to 2.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.8 · 2020=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238290 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 94% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #31/51
  • PHOTO D18 Indianapolis
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D18 Indianapolis (0.0 TCR gap)

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D15 Chicago Downtown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D15 Chicago Downtown averages 2.6 TCR (94% of the Vertical Transportation Company BLS benchmark).

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

D15 Chicago Downtown TCR series: 2019=2.8 · 2020=2.5 · BLS 2.8

Where D15 Chicago Downtown falls in its industry

1,138 Vertical Transportation Compan establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 51 Vertical Transportation Compan employers in Illinois.

D15 Chicago Downtown (95 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate D15 Chicago Downtown
D15 Chicago Downtown (95 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0

D15 Chicago Downtown has more employees than the Vertical Transportation Company median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2020 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2019 2.8 2.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238290 · IL · Chicago

1,138 Vertical Transportation Company 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 D18 Indianapolis 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DuraFlex 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley View Agri 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 040-Peoria 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glenwood Reporting Center 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Astro Insulation #287 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE UJAMAA CONSTRUCTION INC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vissering Construction Company 95 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 Foremost Farms - Greenville 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pryor Chemical Company 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Natural Immunogenics 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR WC 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sensient Natural Ingredients, Field and Research 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE MMK Huntington Beach 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rabe's Quality Meat, Inc. 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnny Janosik Store 95 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: 2020, 2019. 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.