Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local · Illinois

ORD - Chicago

Northlake, IL · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ORD - Chicago runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade D.

ORD - Chicago: 5.8 TCR = 128% of Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ORD - Chicago safety composite

ORD - Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

ORD - Chicago: 3.4 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2019

ORD - Chicago's TCR rose 4.7 from 3.4 in 2018 to 8.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Northlake, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 128% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #100/161
  • PHOTO John Brown Portersvi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: John Brown Portersville (0.0 TCR gap)

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ORD - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ORD - Chicago averages 5.8 TCR (128% of the Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

ORD - Chicago TCR series: 2018=3.4 · 2019=8.1 · BLS 4.5

Where ORD - Chicago falls in its industry

2,784 Transfer (trucking) services, establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #100 safest of 161 Transfer (trucking) services, employers in Illinois.

ORD - Chicago (68 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ORD - Chicago
ORD - Chicago (68 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

ORD - Chicago has more employees than the Transfer (trucking) services, general fr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2019 8.1 6.1 4 0 0
2018 3.4 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IL · Northlake

2,784 Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 56 employers in Northlake, 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 John Brown Portersville 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LOS ANGELES (CACMR) 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOUSTON SOUTH (TXCLL) 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kwik Trip Yard Operations 868 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fernlea Nurseries -MAG 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva STJ1 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2057-Centralia, IL 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Rockford Service Center 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL - Northlake 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Support 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARYZTA - Northlake 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group 403 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #478 UNIONTOWN, PA 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CHANS-Community Health and Nursing 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 2111 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0031 1863 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE NGMS-B340 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Knoxville 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lankershim Yard 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSM- Germantown 68 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.