Retail · Illinois

Unit #0972

Niles, IL · ~78 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Unit #0972 runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Retail workplace, earning a grade A.

Unit #0972: 1.0 TCR = 30% of Retail BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Unit #0972 safety composite

Unit #0972 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Unit #0972: 1.5 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Unit #0972's TCR rose 1.7 from 1.5 in 2018 to 3.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Niles, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/220
  • PHOTO Unit #0993
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unit #0993 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Unit #0972 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Unit #0972 averages 1.0 TCR (30% of the Retail BLS benchmark).

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

Unit #0972 TCR series: 2018=1.5 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Unit #0972 falls in its industry

4,991 Retail establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 220 Retail employers in Illinois.

Unit #0972 (78 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Unit #0972
Unit #0972 (78 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Unit #0972 has fewer employees than the Retail median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2023 3.2 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
2019 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IL · Niles

4,991 Retail employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 111 employers in Niles, 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 Unit #0993 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #2369 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #2914 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 504 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bedford Grow LLC 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waukegan Station 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago West Tech 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corn Belt Energy Corporation 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aerospace Business Groups : Niles 1,010 FTE
CITY-NEAR Airframe Systems : Niles 978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shure Incorporated 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3320 683 FTE
NAT-TCR Unit #0993 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2369 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2914 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Deer Park Ethanol & Rail 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unit #0863 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #1229 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0579 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #1531 78 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.