General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Sysco Chicago

Des Plaines, IL · ~581 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sysco Chicago runs at 437% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Sysco Chicago: 9.6 TCR = 437% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sysco Chicago safety composite

Sysco Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Sysco Chicago: 5.3 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Sysco Chicago's TCR rose 2.1 from 5.3 in 2021 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Des Plaines, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 437% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #68/78
  • PHOTO Restaurant Depot 433
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 255 inj
  • SIZE ~581 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Restaurant Depot 433 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sysco Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sysco Chicago averages 9.6 TCR (437% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sysco Chicago TCR series: 2021=5.3 · 2022=16.8 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Sysco Chicago falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 78 General-line groceries merchan employers in Illinois.

Sysco Chicago (581 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sysco Chicago
Sysco Chicago (581 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Sysco Chicago has more employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 7.3 6.3 59 0 0
2023 9.1 6.0 65 0 0
2022 16.8 13.8 103 1 0
2021 5.3 4.9 28 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IL · Des Plaines

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers 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 Restaurant Depot 433 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR QCD Suffolk 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR QCD Hawaii 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Customized - SC - 0808 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heating and Air Conditioning 581 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4795-EA-ORD-CHICAGO - OHARE-EAGLE FLIGHT SERVICE 581 FTE
STATE-SIZE CGT 581 FTE
STATE-SIZE James Hardie Building Products Chicago Office 581 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 HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale North Richland Hills 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Germain's Glass 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR S.J. Distributors LLC-Stockton Warehouse 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Just Born Quality Confections 581 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stevens Engineers & Constructors 581 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chambersburg Roll Facility 581 FTE
NAT-SIZE NP Lake Mead LLC, dba Fiesta Henderson Casino Hotel 581 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. 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.