Textile design services · Illinois

Kehoe Designs, Inc.

Chicago, IL · ~233 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kehoe Designs, Inc. runs at 1204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Textile design services workplace, earning a grade F.

Kehoe Designs, Inc.: 6.0 TCR = 1204% of Textile design services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kehoe Designs, Inc. safety composite

Kehoe Designs, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Kehoe Designs, Inc.: 4.6 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2018

Kehoe Designs, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.9 from 4.6 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541490 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 1204% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK P13
  • PHOTO I-5 Design Build Main
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~233 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: I-5 Design Build Main (3.0 TCR gap)

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Kehoe Designs, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kehoe Designs, Inc. averages 6.0 TCR (1204% of the Textile design services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Kehoe Designs, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2018=7.5 · BLS 0.5

Where Kehoe Designs, Inc. falls in its industry

8 Textile design services establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kehoe Designs, Inc. (233 employees, TCR 6.0) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 212 employees and a TCR of 2.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SOLODesign Resources, Inc.Eastland Forrester CorporationNew YorkG-III APPAREL GROUP, LTDInnov8 - Trumbull, CTKehoe Designs, Inc.
Kehoe Designs, Inc. (233 employees, TCR 6.0) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 212 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Kehoe Designs, Inc. has more employees than the Textile design services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2018 7.5 2.2 17 0 0
2016 4.6 2.8 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541490 · IL · Chicago

8 Textile design services 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 I-5 Design Build Main 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Innov8 - Trumbull, CT 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR G-III APPAREL GROUP, LTD 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Design Resources, Inc. 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Central Baptist Village 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belhaven Nursing and Rehabilitation 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10D8144 PHARMA CHICAGOLAND DC 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hope Creek Care Center 233 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 Stringert, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington, Missouri 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hudapack Metal Treating Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR New York (GH) 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 082 - Wilkes-Barre 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kauffman Engineering, Inc. LOG 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE BRP US Inc. Spruce Pine 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anthony Timberlands - Bearden 233 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, 2016. 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.