General warehousing and storage · Illinois

Des Plaines

Des Plaines, IL · ~447 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Plaines runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General warehousing and storage workplace, earning a grade A.

Des Plaines: 0.6 TCR = 11% of General warehousing and storage BLS 5.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Plaines safety composite

Des Plaines scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

Des Plaines: 0.3 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 3.34× in 2024

Des Plaines's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.3 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 3.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Des Plaines, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 11% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #28/551
  • PHOTO HQ
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~447 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HQ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Plaines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Plaines averages 0.6 TCR (11% of the General warehousing and storage BLS benchmark).

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

Des Plaines TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.1 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=0.3 · 2021=2 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2 · BLS 5.8

Where Des Plaines falls in its industry

9,477 General warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 95% 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 #28 safest of 551 General warehousing and storag employers in Illinois.

Des Plaines (447 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Plaines
Des Plaines (447 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Des Plaines has more employees than the General warehousing and storage 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 2.0 2.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.0 1.4 3 0 0
2020 0.3 0.1 2 0 0
2019 0.7 0.6 5 0 0
2018 0.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · IL · Des Plaines

9,477 General warehousing and storage employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 174 employers in Des Plaines, 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 HQ 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Professional Tools 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4363 GEODIS LOGISTICS 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schneider Electric IT 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Parts Town 447 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Barrington 447 FTE
STATE-SIZE icon Mechanical LLC 448 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pontiac LSC Communications 446 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Dow Chemical Company SCO Hahnville LA 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NGDS-A988 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Electro-Mechanical Products, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Independent Living Services 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Phoenix 001 PR PT EEs 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MKC4 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE Workrise Technologies Inc 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3888 - East Coast Return Center 447 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, 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.