Retail · Illinois

Unit # 0972

Niles, IL · ~134 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Unit # 0972 runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Retail workplace, earning a grade B.

Unit # 0972: 2.2 TCR = 64% of Retail BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Unit # 0972 safety composite

Unit # 0972 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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: 0.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

Unit # 0972's TCR rose 4.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Niles, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 64% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #20/77
  • PHOTO STR0458
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STR0458 (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Illinois employers → · Look up another →

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 2.2 TCR (64% 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: 2016=0 · 2017=4.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Unit # 0972 falls in its industry

1,987 Retail establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 77 Retail employers in Illinois.

Unit # 0972 (134 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Unit # 0972
Unit # 0972 (134 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Unit # 0972 has more employees than the Retail median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2017 4.3 4.3 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · IL · Niles

1,987 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 STR0458 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR STR0675 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 72026 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR STR0645 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Korte Construction Company DBA The Korte Company 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago - #70 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Area Erectors - Rockford 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pentegra Systems Naperville 134 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 N and R of Sikeston at Clearview Inc 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR DBi Miami 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Shepherdsville 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 23rd Street 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100527 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 2376 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cranial Technologies Corporate & Manufacturing 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Crosse (Wilac) 134 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: 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.