Cold storage warehousing · Illinois

LaGrou Chicago Cold

Chicago, IL · ~42 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LaGrou Chicago Cold runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cold storage warehousing workplace, earning a grade A.

LaGrou Chicago Cold: 1.8 TCR = 30% of Cold storage warehousing BLS 5.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LaGrou Chicago Cold safety composite

LaGrou Chicago Cold scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

LaGrou Chicago Cold held a steady TCR band

LaGrou Chicago Cold's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/50
  • PHOTO Cold-Link Logistics …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cold-Link Logistics Orlando (0.0 TCR gap)

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LaGrou Chicago Cold in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LaGrou Chicago Cold averages 1.8 TCR (30% of the Cold storage warehousing BLS benchmark).

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

LaGrou Chicago Cold TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 5.8

Where LaGrou Chicago Cold falls in its industry

1,039 Cold storage warehousing establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 50 Cold storage warehousing employers in Illinois.

LaGrou Chicago Cold (42 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate LaGrou Chicago Cold
LaGrou Chicago Cold (42 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

LaGrou Chicago Cold has fewer employees than the Cold storage warehousing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2022 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2021 3.8 3.8 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · IL · Chicago

1,039 Cold storage warehousing 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 Cold-Link Logistics Orlando 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Worth-Samuels 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Americold Cartersville, GA 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Americold Logistics, LLC: Johnson 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Pontiac, IL 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterman, IL-R&D 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield IL 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Egyptian Electric Cooperative 42 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 Owens & Minor Medical Action 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mackey Electric, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clerical and Supervisors 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Breck School 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Morello Concrete Construction, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avera Health Avera St Mary's Hospital Campus 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE AO Door 42 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. 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.