Roasting coffee · Illinois

Metropolis Coffee Company

Chicago, IL · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metropolis Coffee Company runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Roasting coffee workplace, earning a grade C.

Metropolis Coffee Company: 3.7 TCR = 90% of Roasting coffee BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metropolis Coffee Company safety composite

Metropolis Coffee Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Metropolis Coffee Company: 0.0 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Metropolis Coffee Company's TCR rose 7.4 from 0.0 in 2023 to 7.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311920 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 90% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Fairwave Holdings LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fairwave Holdings LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metropolis Coffee Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metropolis Coffee Company averages 3.7 TCR (90% of the Roasting coffee BLS benchmark).

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

Metropolis Coffee Company TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Metropolis Coffee Company falls in its industry

169 Roasting coffee establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Roasting coffee employers in Illinois.

Metropolis Coffee Company (30 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Metropolis Coffee Company
Metropolis Coffee Company (30 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Metropolis Coffee Company has fewer employees than the Roasting coffee median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 7.4 3.7 1 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311920 · IL · Chicago

169 Roasting coffee 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 Fairwave Holdings LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Rifle Coffee Company 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eximius Coffee LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cometeer 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Odell Fire 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago Loop Tech 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 30 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 Lincoln Winnelson 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jefferson City Capital Plaza 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Amcor Flexibles Yuba City 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn West Palm Beach 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE B&B Transformer, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Panther Graphics, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hutton Construction LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Zone Equipment Inc. 30 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. 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.