Transportation - People Mover · Illinois

O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS)

Chicago, IL · ~125 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS) runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Transportation - People Mover workplace, earning a grade A.

O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS): 1.1 TCR = 24% of Transportation - People Mover BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS) safety composite

O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS) held a steady TCR band

O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS)'s TCR held near 0.1 from 0.8 in 2020 to 0.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.8 · 2021=1.6 · 2023=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485999 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO MedStar Medical Tran…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MedStar Medical Transportation South (0.1 TCR gap)

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O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS) averages 1.1 TCR (24% of the Transportation - People Mover BLS benchmark).

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

O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS) TCR series: 2020=0.8 · 2021=1.6 · 2023=0.8 · BLS 4.5

Where O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS) falls in its industry

83 Transportation - People Mover establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Transportation - People Mover employers in Illinois.

O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS) (125 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS)
O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS) (125 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.1

O'Hare Airport Transit System, Inc. (OATS) has more employees than the Transportation - People Mover median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2023 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2020 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485999 · IL · Chicago

83 Transportation - People Mover 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 MedStar Medical Transportation South 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DC Trails Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 55603 GEORGIA SOUTHERN 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 55326 Kennesaw State Univ 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Joppa Power Station 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dunnet Bay Main 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE J3 Construction Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westside Mechanical Group Design/Build, LLC. 125 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 Silgan Containers Oconomowoc 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard by Marriott Cleveland University Circle 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rowmark 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Trucking, Inc IN 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Sierra Vista 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE B & D Plumbing, Heating & AC Inc. 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE STA - Willingboro 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Akron - Wilbeth Shop 125 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: 2023, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.