Fast-food restaurants · Illinois

Dairy Queen

Petersburg, IL · ~66 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dairy Queen runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fast-food restaurants workplace, earning a grade D.

Dairy Queen: 5.0 TCR = 166% of Fast-food restaurants BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dairy Queen safety composite

Dairy Queen scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

Dairy Queen: 4.7 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Dairy Queen's TCR rose 0.5 from 4.7 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Petersburg, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 166% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Legacy Wendy's-155
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Legacy Wendy's-155 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dairy Queen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dairy Queen averages 5.0 TCR (166% of the Fast-food restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

Dairy Queen TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=5.2 · BLS 3.0

Where Dairy Queen falls in its industry

1,014 Fast-food restaurants establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Fast-food restaurants employers in Illinois.

Dairy Queen (66 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen (66 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Dairy Queen has more employees than the Fast-food restaurants median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2017 5.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 4.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · IL · Petersburg

1,014 Fast-food restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 9 employers in Petersburg, 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 Legacy Wendy's-155 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 024 Fajardo 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meson Sandwiches 015 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KFC-Kapolei #034 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE NG Schaumburg Reporting Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Boldt Company - Chicago, IL 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Underground Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR PORTA CUSD #202 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunny Acres Nursing Home 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunny Acres Nursing Home #562 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR County Market #239 44 FTE
NAT-TCR Alliance (Neall) 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland - YT 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Senior Care of Corpus Christi 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cold Storage 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Emco Wheaton Retail Corp. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Fredericktown Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Walnut Creek 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE VC047 - VCI - Las Vegas 66 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: 2017, 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.