Employer · Illinois

IL-Chicago-Operating Center

Chicago, IL · ~387 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IL-Chicago-Operating Center runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

IL-Chicago-Operating Center: 5.4 TCR = 121% of industry BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IL-Chicago-Operating Center safety composite

IL-Chicago-Operating Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

IL-Chicago-Operating Center held a steady TCR band

IL-Chicago-Operating Center's TCR held near 0.3 from 6.0 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.0 · 2017=4.0 · 2018=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 121% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #117/143
  • PHOTO BM Transport, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 71 inj
  • SIZE ~387 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BM Transport, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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IL-Chicago-Operating Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IL-Chicago-Operating Center averages 5.4 TCR (121% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

IL-Chicago-Operating Center TCR series: 2016=6 · 2017=4 · 2018=6.3 · BLS 4.5

Where IL-Chicago-Operating Center falls in its industry

3,252 industry establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #117 safest of 143 industry employers in Illinois.

IL-Chicago-Operating Center (387 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate IL-Chicago-Operating Center
IL-Chicago-Operating Center (387 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

IL-Chicago-Operating Center has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 6.3 5.5 28 1 0
2017 4.0 2.4 16 2 0
2016 6.0 4.2 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IL · Chicago

3,252 industry 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 BM Transport, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARMELLINI GEORGIA 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mankato Terminal - NON DOT 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PHOENIX SHOP 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Marion 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eby-Brown Chicago 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Foods Chicago 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4531 387 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 JB3 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0536 - Jensen Beach, Fl 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rai Crew Ind 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Uge Syr 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Splish Splash Waterpark 387 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supply Chain : Norwich, NY 387 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rai Crew Lga 387 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bell Hub (Cabll) 387 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.