Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) · Illinois

GL 7112 USS Shields

Great Lakes, IL · ~65 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GL 7112 USS Shields runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) workplace, earning a grade D.

GL 7112 USS Shields: 5.7 TCR = 191% of Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) BLS 3.0 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GL 7112 USS Shields safety composite

GL 7112 USS Shields scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

GL 7112 USS Shields: 2.4 → 16.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.89× in 2024

GL 7112 USS Shields's TCR rose 14.1 from 2.4 in 2019 to 16.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Great Lakes, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 191% of ind

  • DART 16.5 DART
  • RANK #244/364
  • PHOTO 4021-650811300
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4021-650811300 (0.0 TCR gap)

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GL 7112 USS Shields in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GL 7112 USS Shields averages 5.7 TCR (191% of the Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) BLS benchmark).

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

GL 7112 USS Shields TCR series: 2019=2.4 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=16.5 · BLS 3.0

Where GL 7112 USS Shields falls in its industry

6,952 Cafeteria food services contra establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #244 safest of 364 Cafeteria food services contra employers in Illinois.

GL 7112 USS Shields (65 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate GL 7112 USS Shields
GL 7112 USS Shields (65 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

GL 7112 USS Shields has more employees than the Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g median and a higher 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 16.5 16.5 7 0 0
2023 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2021 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2020 5.4 3.6 3 0 0
2019 2.4 2.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IL · Great Lakes

6,952 Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 14 employers in Great Lakes, 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 4021-650811300 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT STAMFORD HOSPITAL - UNION 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson Public Schools 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detroit Commissary 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience McLeansboro Production 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bluff City Materials - Corporate Office 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vector Services 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yorkville Reporting Center 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR GL Tri-Galley 179 FTE
CITY-NEAR GL 535 Galley 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR GL Workforce Center 3501 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR GL 7122 USS Pearl Harbor 78 FTE
NAT-TCR 1431 189 Moyer Street 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Conwaste Recogido Mayaguez 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Housing and Supportive Housing 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bar ALE, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lawrence Distributing Co., Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Sacramento Ca - Shore 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dublin AC 65 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.