624210 Community Food Services · Illinois

Greater Chicago Food Depository

Chicago, IL · ~254 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Greater Chicago Food Depository runs at 289% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 624210 Community Food Services workplace, earning a grade F.

Greater Chicago Food Depository: 11.0 TCR = 289% of 624210 Community Food Services BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Greater Chicago Food Depository safety composite

Greater Chicago Food Depository scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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 11 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.4

2020→2024

Greater Chicago Food Depository injury rate improved

Greater Chicago Food Depository's TCR fell 4.4 from 16.1 in 2020 to 11.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=16.1 · 2022=5.2 · 2024=11.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624210 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 289% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Great Plains Food Bank
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~254 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Plains Food Bank (0.1 TCR gap)

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Greater Chicago Food Depository in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Greater Chicago Food Depository averages 11.0 TCR (289% of the 624210 Community Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

Greater Chicago Food Depository TCR series: 2020=16.1 · 2022=5.2 · 2024=11.7 · BLS 3.8

Where Greater Chicago Food Depository falls in its industry

147 624210 Community Food Services establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 624210 Community Food Services employers in Illinois.

Greater Chicago Food Depository (254 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 Greater Chicago Food Depository
Greater Chicago Food Depository (254 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Greater Chicago Food Depository has more employees than the 624210 Community Food Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 11.7 9.7 29 0 0
2022 5.2 4.3 12 0 0
2020 16.1 16.1 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624210 · IL · Chicago

147 624210 Community Food Services 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 Great Plains Food Bank 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Food Bank of the Rockies 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LA Regional Food Bank 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foodlink, Inc. 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE BT Mount Prospect 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE KONE Center - SBC 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solo Cup Company Urbana 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Aluminum Products Inc 254 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 Entrust Corporation 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookhaven Hospital 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale West Melbourne Memory Care 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bucyrus Ryan Outdoor Living 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Juan County 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Munising 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chewning and Wilmer, Inc. 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenwood Sc 254 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, 2022, 2020. 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.