Employer · Illinois

Kirkland Chi Cafe

Chicago, IL · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.0
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kirkland Chi Cafe runs at 600% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Kirkland Chi Cafe: 18.0 TCR = 600% of industry BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kirkland Chi Cafe safety composite

Kirkland Chi Cafe scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.1

2022→2024

Kirkland Chi Cafe injury rate improved

Kirkland Chi Cafe's TCR fell 11.1 from 20.8 in 2022 to 9.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 23.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=20.8 · 2023=23.6 · 2024=9.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.0 · 600% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #356/364
  • PHOTO SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE**
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE** (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kirkland Chi Cafe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kirkland Chi Cafe averages 18.0 TCR (600% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Kirkland Chi Cafe TCR series: 2022=20.8 · 2023=23.6 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 3.0

Where Kirkland Chi Cafe falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #356 safest of 364 industry employers in Illinois.

Kirkland Chi Cafe (27 employees, TCR 18.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kirkland Chi Cafe
Kirkland Chi Cafe (27 employees, TCR 18.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kirkland Chi Cafe has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 9.6 9.6 1 0 0
2023 23.6 11.8 6 0 0
2022 20.8 15.6 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IL · Chicago

6,952 industry 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 SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE** 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT CENTRAL CONN ST UNIV-RETAIL 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT NWM CFA 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4021-000010334 18.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pizzo Native Plant Nursery, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE C070 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-R&D 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloomington 27 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 Goodwill Menaul 18.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SKJ Construction 18.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ceres Brunswick 18.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Home Health Care Professionals- Elmore 18.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE CW-Carrollton Reg Med 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baptist Health MC-Little Rock 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hendrick South 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE MRC-Pinecrest 27 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.