Custodial services · Illinois

O'Hare International Airport - ORD

Chicago, IL · ~303 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O'Hare International Airport - ORD runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Custodial services workplace, earning a grade D.

O'Hare International Airport - ORD: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Custodial services BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O'Hare International Airport - ORD safety composite

O'Hare International Airport - ORD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

−3.8

2019→2022

O'Hare International Airport - ORD injury rate improved

O'Hare International Airport - ORD's TCR fell 3.8 from 9.0 in 2019 to 5.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.0 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=6.0 · 2022=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561720 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #140/189
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT ST ANTHONY…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 65 inj
  • SIZE ~303 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT ST ANTHONY'S HOSP NORTH-ES (0.0 TCR gap)

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O'Hare International Airport - ORD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O'Hare International Airport - ORD averages 5.7 TCR (126% of the Custodial services BLS benchmark).

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

O'Hare International Airport - ORD TCR series: 2019=9 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=6 · 2022=5.1 · BLS 4.5

Where O'Hare International Airport - ORD falls in its industry

4,064 Custodial services establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #140 safest of 189 Custodial services employers in Illinois.

O'Hare International Airport - ORD (303 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 O'Hare International Airport - ORD
O'Hare International Airport - ORD (303 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2

O'Hare International Airport - ORD has more employees than the Custodial services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2022 5.1 1.1 9 0 0
2021 6.0 3.5 17 0 0
2020 2.5 1.8 13 0 0
2019 9.0 6.6 26 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561720 · IL · Chicago

4,064 Custodial services 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 SODEXO AT ST ANTHONY'S HOSP NORTH-ES 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LewisGale Hospital - Montgomery - EVS 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Plaza Hospital - EVS 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairfield Glade Resort 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chicago Plant (Bruss) 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2081 - Broadview 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 328 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 253 303 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 5472-NAI-0034-0034-00845 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1138 Woonsocket 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Deaconess Specialty Physicians 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at St Anthony'S Hosp North-Es 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Safway Atlantic, LLC - New Jersey 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inogen, Inc. 4 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Plant 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardinal LG -Ocala IG 303 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.