Commercial building construction general contractors · Illinois

Pepper

Chicago, IL · ~633 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pepper runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Pepper: 3.6 TCR = 125% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pepper safety composite

Pepper scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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)
F 3.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.1

2016→2024

Pepper injury rate improved

Pepper's TCR fell 2.1 from 3.9 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.9 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=6.0 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 125% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #128/169
  • PHOTO Sullivan & Cozart, I…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 227 inj
  • SIZE ~633 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sullivan & Cozart, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pepper in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pepper averages 3.6 TCR (125% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Pepper TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=6 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=2 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 2.9

Where Pepper falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #128 safest of 169 Commercial building constructi employers in Illinois.

Pepper (633 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Pepper
Pepper (633 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Pepper has more employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 1.8 1.6 8 0 0
2023 2.0 1.4 10 0 0
2022 6.7 5.3 45 0 0
2021 0.6 0.4 3 0 0
2020 1.9 1.6 11 0 0
2019 2.9 2.1 19 0 0
2018 6.0 4.4 50 0 0
2017 6.7 5.5 55 0 0
2016 3.9 2.7 26 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · IL · Chicago

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors 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 Sullivan & Cozart, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ancon Construction Inc 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capitol Construction Services, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR POWELL RYKA INC. 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE JCG Industries 632 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 7078 634 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Valley Community Hospital 634 FTE
STATE-SIZE MillerCoors Corporate Office - Chicago 635 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 MLD Technologies, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Site 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Harlingin Har 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mason City 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trans-System, Inc 633 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elbridge Campus 633 FTE
NAT-SIZE Del0000050 Goodwill Industries - Warehou 633 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seymour Community Schools 633 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.