General Freight Trucking, Local · Illinois

Ilcws - Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~144 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ilcws - Chicago runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Freight Trucking, Local workplace, earning a grade D.

Ilcws - Chicago: 8.6 TCR = 190% of General Freight Trucking, Local BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ilcws - Chicago safety composite

Ilcws - Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−3.4

2019→2022

Ilcws - Chicago injury rate improved

Ilcws - Chicago's TCR fell 3.4 from 8.7 in 2019 to 5.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.7 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=11.4 · 2022=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 190% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #134/161
  • PHOTO JA Frate, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JA Frate, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ilcws - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ilcws - Chicago averages 8.6 TCR (190% of the General Freight Trucking, Local BLS benchmark).

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

Ilcws - Chicago TCR series: 2019=8.7 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=11.4 · 2022=5.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Ilcws - Chicago falls in its industry

2,784 General Freight Trucking, Loca establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #134 safest of 161 General Freight Trucking, Loca employers in Illinois.

Ilcws - Chicago (144 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ilcws - Chicago
Ilcws - Chicago (144 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Ilcws - Chicago has more employees than the General Freight Trucking, Local 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
2022 5.3 5.3 7 0 0
2021 11.4 11.4 14 0 0
2020 8.8 8.0 12 0 0
2019 8.7 7.0 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IL · Chicago

2,784 General Freight Trucking, Local 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 JA Frate, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swedesboro - DTNA 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR WR Danzi Logistics, LLC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MTS Grand Praire 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Muller Pinehurst Dairy Inc 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norman Mechanical Inc 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE A&R Mechanical Contractors 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Suter Company, Inc. (May) 144 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 Coatesville Scrap Iron & Metal 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Peninsula Sanitary Service, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0005-0004-00892 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 351400-Chappaqua Po 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE YMCA Silver Spring 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mickleton 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hazelwood Food & Drink 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mexico Plastic Co 144 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.