Vertical Transportation Company · Illinois

D19 Chicago Downtown

Chicago, IL · ~83 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D19 Chicago Downtown runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Vertical Transportation Company workplace, earning a grade B.

D19 Chicago Downtown: 1.5 TCR = 53% of Vertical Transportation Company BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D19 Chicago Downtown safety composite

D19 Chicago Downtown scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

D19 Chicago Downtown: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2024

D19 Chicago Downtown's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 53% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #14/51
  • PHOTO Vortex Industries - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vortex Industries - WPX (0.0 TCR gap)

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D19 Chicago Downtown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D19 Chicago Downtown averages 1.5 TCR (53% of the Vertical Transportation Company BLS benchmark).

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

D19 Chicago Downtown TCR series: 2017=0 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.8

Where D19 Chicago Downtown falls in its industry

1,138 Vertical Transportation Compan establishments

Safer than 63% 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 #14 safest of 51 Vertical Transportation Compan employers in Illinois.

D19 Chicago Downtown (83 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 D19 Chicago Downtown
D19 Chicago Downtown (83 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0

D19 Chicago Downtown has more employees than the Vertical Transportation Company median and a lower 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
2024 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 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 Vortex Industries - WPX 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Plainview 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR D49 Boise 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veyance Technologies Inc- Bessemer, AL 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jo-Carroll Energy - Elizabeth 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE 86 - Walsh Federal, LLC 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herlihy Mid-Continent Co. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark Roofing Co. 83 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 D49 Boise 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 790 Liberty Rd Flowood Ms 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vincennes District Office 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 8027057 Phillips Medisize Menomonie WI 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE D64 North Florida 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marc Glassman Inc 37WL 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marc Glassman Inc 55MW 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE 55837 Imperial 83 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, 2017. 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.