Laundry services, industrial · Illinois

Five Star Laundry Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~109 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Five Star Laundry Chicago runs at 474% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Laundry services, industrial workplace, earning a grade F.

Five Star Laundry Chicago: 9.9 TCR = 474% of Laundry services, industrial BLS 2.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Five Star Laundry Chicago safety composite

Five Star Laundry Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2018→2023

Five Star Laundry Chicago injury rate improved

Five Star Laundry Chicago's TCR fell 1.9 from 7.3 in 2018 to 5.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 22.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.3 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=22.9 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812332 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 474% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #43/51
  • PHOTO FMG MANAGEMENT INC.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 67 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FMG MANAGEMENT INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Five Star Laundry Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Five Star Laundry Chicago averages 9.9 TCR (474% of the Laundry services, industrial BLS benchmark).

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

Five Star Laundry Chicago TCR series: 2018=7.3 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=22.9 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=5.4 · BLS 2.1

Where Five Star Laundry Chicago falls in its industry

917 Laundry services, industrial establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 51 Laundry services, industrial employers in Illinois.

Five Star Laundry Chicago (109 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Five Star Laundry Chicago
Five Star Laundry Chicago (109 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Five Star Laundry Chicago has more employees than the Laundry services, industrial median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2023 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2022 7.5 5.3 7 0 0
2021 22.9 11.4 12 0 0
2020 3.7 3.7 3 0 0
2019 12.8 11.0 29 0 0
2018 7.3 7.3 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812332 · IL · Chicago

917 Laundry services, industrial 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 FMG MANAGEMENT INC. 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill Laundry 5392 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCALA FL - 915 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WILMINGTON DE - 206 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE PRI1 Princeton, IL 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois American Water (Corperate Office) 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE ibuilders corp 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Chicago Downtown South 109 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 Retail East - Northbridge 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Seago Health Care Center Ltd. Co. d/b/a The Manor at Seagoville 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Mahaska Specialty Care 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-062-Bloomington ( RK-062 ) 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Briarfield Manor 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champion City Transit Management, Inc. 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethel Ct 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hope / Spectrum Health CC 109 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.