General merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

KCN Cook County

Name: KCN Cook County Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Chicago, IL · ~22 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 15.4
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

KCN Cook County runs at 699% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

KCN Cook County: 15.4 TCR = 699% of General merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KCN Cook County safety composite

KCN Cook County scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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).

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 15.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−13.3

2016→2020

KCN Cook County injury rate improved

KCN Cook County's TCR fell 13.3 from 13.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 36.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.3 · 2017=14.3 · 2018=36.1 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424990 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.4 · 699% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #15/15
PHOTO Keefe Edison
BOOK 5y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Keefe Edison (0.2 TCR gap)

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Harrington Fac

15.7
Keefe Edison

15.5
This site

15.4
Keefe Group LA

15.1
YMCO Petaluma

14

What this shows KCN Cook County averages 15.4 TCR (699% of the General merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

KCN Cook County TCR series: 2016=13.3 · 2017=14.3 · 2018=36.1 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.2

Where KCN Cook County falls in its industry

301 General merchandise, nondurabl establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 15 General merchandise, nondurabl employers in Illinois.

KCN Cook County (22 employees, TCR 15.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4

KCN Cook County has fewer employees than the General merchandise, nondurable goods, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2020	0.0	0.0	0	0
2019	13.3	6.6	2	0
2018	36.1	36.1	2	1
2017	14.3	14.3	2	0
2016	13.3	6.6	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424990 · IL · Chicago

301 General merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Keefe Edison	EDISON, NJ	15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Keefe Group LA County	LOS ANGELES, CA	15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Harrington Factory	HARRINGTON, ME	15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	YMCO Petaluma	PETALUMA, CA	14.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Tolono Main	TOLONO	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Anna Evergreen, LLC	COBDEN	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sunset	CLINTON	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cedarcrest, LLC.	TABLE GROVE	22 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago Public Schools	Chicago	49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago/Corporate	Chicago	18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Illinois at Chicago	Chicago	13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University Health Service UIC UIC Campus	Chicago	12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR	Creekside Inn	Palo Alto, CA	15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	CLARO / PRT - Modulos Humacao y CO	Humacao, PR	15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dollar General (WC USX DGB)	Bessemer, AL	15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Atrium at Serenity Pointe	Hot Springs, AR	15.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	DSG Mt Vernon	Mt. Vernon, NY	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lancaster Memory Care dba Primrose Memory Care of Lancaster	Lancaster, OH	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dialyze Direct NJ, LLC	Neptune, NJ	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MPE Services - Pinson	Pinson, AL	22 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.