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

GL 7117 USS Chicago

Great Lakes, IL · ~57 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GL 7117 USS Chicago runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) workplace, earning a grade F.

GL 7117 USS Chicago: 7.9 TCR = 264% of Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) BLS 3.0 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GL 7117 USS Chicago safety composite

GL 7117 USS Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

−10.2

2018→2024

GL 7117 USS Chicago injury rate improved

GL 7117 USS Chicago's TCR fell 10.2 from 12.0 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 19.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=12.0 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=19.2 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 264% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #288/364
  • PHOTO Hope College
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hope College (0.0 TCR gap)

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GL 7117 USS Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GL 7117 USS Chicago averages 7.9 TCR (264% 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 7117 USS Chicago TCR series: 2018=12 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=19.2 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.0

Where GL 7117 USS Chicago falls in its industry

6,952 Cafeteria food services contra establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #288 safest of 364 Cafeteria food services contra employers in Illinois.

GL 7117 USS Chicago (57 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 7117 USS Chicago
GL 7117 USS Chicago (57 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

GL 7117 USS Chicago 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 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2023 5.6 3.7 3 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2020 19.2 19.2 4 0 0
2019 6.8 4.6 3 0 0
2018 12.0 9.6 5 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 Hope College 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 000019050 WAC 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 026/Chowan University 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ELIM PARK BAPTIST HOME INC 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Concrete, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centennial Contractors of the Quad Cities, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Carpentry, Inc. 57 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 Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado-Powers Retail 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hoboken Fresh Egg Production 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tennessee Pedigree Complex 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CAS018 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Monument Hill Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seekins Precision, Inc 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE 30510 - CAPSTONE Americold Phoenix AZ 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE DoubleTree Suites Lexington 57 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, 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.