Individual and family social services, multi-purpose · Illinois

Start Early

Chicago, IL · ~192 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Start Early runs at 3% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Individual and family social services, multi-purpose workplace, earning a grade A.

Start Early: 0.1 TCR = 3% of Individual and family social services, multi-purpose BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Start Early safety composite

Start Early scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Start Early held a steady TCR band

Start Early's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624190 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 3% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/35
  • PHOTO Financial Services
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Financial Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Start Early in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Start Early averages 0.1 TCR (3% of the Individual and family social services, multi-purpose BLS benchmark).

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

Start Early TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.8

Where Start Early falls in its industry

990 Individual and family social s establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 35 Individual and family social s employers in Illinois.

Start Early (192 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Start Early
Start Early (192 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Start Early has more employees than the Individual and family social services, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624190 · IL · Chicago

990 Individual and family social services, multi-purpose 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 Financial Services 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The People Concern - Mosaic Westlake 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSR, UM, QM 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lifeworks Services, Inc #160 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cresco Labs - Lincoln 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE M-Bar-D 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE #1 roofing company 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILDIV 192 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 HQ Whippany NJ 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ExxonMobil Baytown Olefins Plant 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairburn - 1595 Oakley Industrial Blvd 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR California Department of Transportation Facility 199 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Deaconess Gibson Hospital 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE C. William Hetzer, Inc. 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iconex, LLC Morristown 5512 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teufel Landscape - Corporate 192 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. 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.