Airline food services contractors · Illinois

LSG Sky Chefs Chicago

Des Plaines, IL · ~869 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LSG Sky Chefs Chicago runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Airline food services contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

LSG Sky Chefs Chicago: 5.7 TCR = 189% of Airline food services contractors BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LSG Sky Chefs Chicago safety composite

LSG Sky Chefs Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

−2.1

2021→2024

LSG Sky Chefs Chicago injury rate improved

LSG Sky Chefs Chicago's TCR fell 2.1 from 7.3 in 2021 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=7.3 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Des Plaines, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 189% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #242/364
  • PHOTO UNIV OF TENNESSEE
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 152 inj
  • SIZE ~869 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UNIV OF TENNESSEE (0.0 TCR gap)

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LSG Sky Chefs Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LSG Sky Chefs Chicago averages 5.7 TCR (189% of the Airline food services contractors BLS benchmark).

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

LSG Sky Chefs Chicago TCR series: 2021=7.3 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.0

Where LSG Sky Chefs Chicago falls in its industry

6,952 Airline food services contract establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #242 safest of 364 Airline food services contract employers in Illinois.

LSG Sky Chefs Chicago (869 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate LSG Sky Chefs Chicago
LSG Sky Chefs Chicago (869 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

LSG Sky Chefs Chicago has more employees than the Airline food services contractors 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 5.2 5.2 57 0 0
2023 4.5 4.5 48 0 0
2021 7.3 6.8 47 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IL · Des Plaines

6,952 Airline food services contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 174 employers in Des Plaines, 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 UNIV OF TENNESSEE 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAPTIST HEALTH-FT SM 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Higley Unified School District 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIV 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - RFD3 872 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pack Expo Services, LLC -1141 862 FTE
STATE-SIZE Naperville Research Center 862 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tovar Snow Professionals 876 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Orlando 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - SCK4 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Transport Service 60159 Lakeland 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Humboldt Feed Mill 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - GSP1 869 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teijin Automotive Technologies, Inc 869 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heil Environmental 869 FTE
NAT-SIZE US2 Sandy Springs Facility 869 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, 2021. 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.