Water distribution · Illinois

DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside

Chicago, IL · ~250 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside runs at 767% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside: 9.2 TCR = 767% of Water distribution BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside safety composite

DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside: 8.0 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2024

DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside's TCR rose 2.4 from 8.0 in 2023 to 10.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 767% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #43/60
  • PHOTO Water Treatment
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~250 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Water Treatment (0.0 TCR gap)

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DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside averages 9.2 TCR (767% of the Water distribution BLS benchmark).

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

DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside TCR series: 2023=8 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 1.2

Where DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside falls in its industry

727 Water distribution establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 60 Water distribution employers in Illinois.

DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside (250 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside
DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside (250 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside has more employees than the Water distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 10.4 10.4 26 0 0
2023 8.0 8.0 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · IL · Chicago

727 Water distribution 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 Water Treatment 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Winsted 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BWS-Heeia 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Roseville Water 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE DWM-South District-1040 W. 95th Street | 1040 W. 95th St. 250 FTE
STATE-SIZE Granite Construction Company - Midwest Region 250 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utilitra LLC 250 FTE
STATE-SIZE BT Chicago 250 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 Twin Ports Health Services 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Enstrom Candies Inc 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayo Civic Center 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Patuxent Institution 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Montgomeryville 250 FTE
NAT-SIZE States Industries 250 FTE
NAT-SIZE Floca - Ocala Center 250 FTE
NAT-SIZE H-J Enterprises 250 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.