Courier Services Except by Air · Illinois

Palatine (Ilpal)

Palatine, IL · ~1,639 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palatine (Ilpal) runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade D.

Palatine (Ilpal): 11.4 TCR = 176% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palatine (Ilpal) safety composite

Palatine (Ilpal) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 7.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Palatine (Ilpal): 11.1 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2018

Palatine (Ilpal)'s TCR rose 0.4 from 11.1 in 2016 to 11.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Palatine, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 11.4 · 176% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #174/249
  • PHOTO MLR316Logistics
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 397 inj
  • SIZE ~1,639 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MLR316Logistics (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palatine (Ilpal) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palatine (Ilpal) averages 11.4 TCR (176% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Palatine (Ilpal) TCR series: 2016=11.1 · 2017=11.7 · 2018=11.5 · BLS 6.5

Where Palatine (Ilpal) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #174 safest of 249 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Illinois.

Palatine (Ilpal) (1,639 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Palatine (Ilpal)
Palatine (Ilpal) (1,639 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Palatine (Ilpal) has more employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 11.5 7.5 141 0 0
2017 11.7 8.2 135 2 0
2016 11.1 7.7 121 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · IL · Palatine

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Palatine, 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 MLR316Logistics 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 780410000 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DKS3 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Connect Training and Logistics 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dot Foods- MTS 1,642 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3842 - UDC-DeKalb 1,635 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7930 SOUTH HOLLAND PCS 1,650 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Monmouth 1,656 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Consolidated School District 15 1,957 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILPAL - PALATINE 1,701 FTE
CITY-NEAR William Rainey Harper College 1,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR 166027-PALATINE IL P&DC 1,002 FTE
NAT-TCR Tampa (GCR) 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LAS - Airport United Airlines Offices 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn By Marriott Orangeburg 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Metal Recycling Minneapolis 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 9277-120 Beaver Creek Resort 1,638 FTE
NAT-SIZE TSV Augusta East 1,638 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tower Health Medical Group 1,638 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 20027 1,640 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.