Couriers and Express Delivery Services · Illinois

Ildek - Dekalb

Dekalb, IL · ~131 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ildek - Dekalb runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Couriers and Express Delivery Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Ildek - Dekalb: 8.7 TCR = 133% of Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ildek - Dekalb safety composite

Ildek - Dekalb scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ildek - Dekalb: 1.3 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2024

Ildek - Dekalb's TCR rose 12.5 from 1.3 in 2019 to 13.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Dekalb, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.7 · 133% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #116/249
  • PHOTO HQ AAA LOGISTICS
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HQ AAA LOGISTICS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ildek - Dekalb in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ildek - Dekalb averages 8.7 TCR (133% of the Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS benchmark).

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

Ildek - Dekalb TCR series: 2019=1.3 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=13.8 · BLS 6.5

Where Ildek - Dekalb falls in its industry

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #116 safest of 249 Couriers and Express Delivery employers in Illinois.

Ildek - Dekalb (131 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ildek - Dekalb
Ildek - Dekalb (131 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Ildek - Dekalb has more employees than the Couriers and Express Delivery Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2024 13.8 11.5 12 0 0
2023 12.5 11.4 10 1 0
2022 10.4 6.2 10 0 0
2021 9.4 5.3 9 0 0
2020 4.5 2.3 2 2 0
2019 1.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · IL · Dekalb

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 93 employers in Dekalb, 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 HQ AAA LOGISTICS 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hudwell Delivery 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 328030000 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUMMERVILLE CENTER (SCSMV) 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Department of Public Works 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE McHugh Enterprises Inc. 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brieser Construction 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alliance Glazing Technologies 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3842 - UDC-DeKalb 1,635 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3842 - DeKalb UDC 1,411 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital 1,067 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb Community Unit School District #428 940 FTE
NAT-TCR HTI 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Oaks at Evans 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 231 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Michelman Steel Enterprises. LLC 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alflo - Florence Center 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nycht - Chester 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kylll - Outerloop Building 2 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohman Family Living at Briar 131 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, 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.