Used merchandise stores · Illinois

Grand Ave. Chicago Store

Chicago, IL · ~40 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grand Ave. Chicago Store runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Used merchandise stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Grand Ave. Chicago Store: 6.8 TCR = 201% of Used merchandise stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grand Ave. Chicago Store safety composite

Grand Ave. Chicago Store scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Grand Ave. Chicago Store: 4.1 → 17.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 17.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.61× in 2020

Grand Ave. Chicago Store's TCR rose 13.8 from 4.1 in 2016 to 17.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453310 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 201% of ind

  • DART 17.9 DART
  • RANK #44/62
  • PHOTO Goodwill HQ
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goodwill HQ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grand Ave. Chicago Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grand Ave. Chicago Store averages 6.8 TCR (201% of the Used merchandise stores BLS benchmark).

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

Grand Ave. Chicago Store TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=17.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Grand Ave. Chicago Store falls in its industry

1,556 Used merchandise stores establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 62 Used merchandise stores employers in Illinois.

Grand Ave. Chicago Store (40 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Grand Ave. Chicago Store
Grand Ave. Chicago Store (40 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Grand Ave. Chicago Store has more employees than the Used merchandise stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2020 17.9 17.9 2 0 0
2019 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2018 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2017 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2016 4.1 4.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · IL · Chicago

1,556 Used merchandise stores 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 Goodwill HQ 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 48th Street Store 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cambridge 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mapleleaf Store 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Integrity Management 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Bloomington Reporting Center 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Downers Grove Sanitary District 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Window Works Addison 40 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 Ross store 599 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0000000111 Quickchek Food Stores 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heraeus Prescious Metals North America LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dental office - Brook West Family Dentistry 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE OAK Oakland 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Flavors, LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE MachineTek LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elementis Specialties 40 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: 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.