Hardware stores · Illinois

JC Licht True Value West Loop

Chicago, IL · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

JC Licht True Value West Loop runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade C.

JC Licht True Value West Loop: 3.9 TCR = 115% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JC Licht True Value West Loop safety composite

JC Licht True Value West Loop scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

JC Licht True Value West Loop: 3.4 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2024

JC Licht True Value West Loop's TCR rose 1.1 from 3.4 in 2022 to 4.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 115% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #18/50
  • PHOTO UNION CITY, TN #03215
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UNION CITY, TN #03215 (0.0 TCR gap)

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JC Licht True Value West Loop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JC Licht True Value West Loop averages 3.9 TCR (115% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

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

JC Licht True Value West Loop TCR series: 2022=3.4 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.4

Where JC Licht True Value West Loop falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 50 Hardware stores employers in Illinois.

JC Licht True Value West Loop (26 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate JC Licht True Value West Loop
JC Licht True Value West Loop (26 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

JC Licht True Value West Loop has more employees than the Hardware stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2023 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · IL · Chicago

1,493 Hardware 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 UNION CITY, TN #03215 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blanton Supplies Inc 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TYLER, TX #00502 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marvin's Talladega 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rock River - Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill 'N Dale Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Generation 26 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 Selmet Inc 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tiffany and Company 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HAMLET 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brownwood Life Care Center Inc 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lassus Store 40 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8059 Slippery Rock SD EVS 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4056 Lancaster Bible College 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gemini Industries, Inc. of Grand Prairie 26 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. 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.