Freight forwarding · Illinois

Schenker - ORD

Des Plaines, IL · ~298 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Schenker - ORD runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Freight forwarding workplace, earning a grade A.

Schenker - ORD: 1.5 TCR = 33% of Freight forwarding BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Schenker - ORD safety composite

Schenker - ORD scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Schenker - ORD: 0.7 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2018

Schenker - ORD's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.7 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488510 · Des Plaines, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 33% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #14/28
  • PHOTO Ruan Transport Corpo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~298 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ruan Transport Corporation T-458 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Schenker - ORD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Schenker - ORD averages 1.5 TCR (33% of the Freight forwarding BLS benchmark).

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

Schenker - ORD TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Schenker - ORD falls in its industry

358 Freight forwarding establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 28 Freight forwarding employers in Illinois.

Schenker - ORD (298 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Schenker - ORD
Schenker - ORD (298 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Schenker - ORD has more employees than the Freight forwarding median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2018 1.4 1.4 6 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 7 0 0
2016 0.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488510 · IL · Des Plaines

358 Freight forwarding employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 174 employers in Des Plaines, 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 Ruan Transport Corporation T-458 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA - Atlanta, Wilson Rd 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Expeditors International of Washington Inc. - MSP 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE E.T. Simonds Construction Compay 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrandSafway Industries LLC - P66 Wood River Refinery 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Johnson Controls Power Solutions - Geneva Facility 298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Walworth Coutny 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Packers Chemical Holdings, LLC (doing buisiness as Packers Chemical) 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sayreville Power Plant 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR D B Construction Services Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Realty Operations Group 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Staples FC 4682 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thales Avionics Inc - Melbourne 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acute Care Hospital 298 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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