Employer · Illinois

Val 28

Chicago, IL · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Val 28 runs at 524% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Val 28: 17.8 TCR = 524% of industry BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Val 28 safety composite

Val 28 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Val 28: 15.1 → 20.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 20.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2020

Val 28's TCR rose 5.4 from 15.1 in 2019 to 20.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.8 · 524% of ind

  • DART 13.7 DART
  • RANK #1274/1293
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0011 Brea
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0011 Brea (0.0 TCR gap)

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Val 28 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Val 28 averages 17.8 TCR (524% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Val 28 TCR series: 2019=15.1 · 2020=20.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Val 28 falls in its industry

30,654 industry establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1274 safest of 1293 industry employers in Illinois.

Val 28 (19 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Val 28
Val 28 (19 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Val 28 has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2020 20.5 13.7 3 0 0
2019 15.1 7.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Chicago

30,654 industry 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0011 Brea 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yummy.com PV 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SXB 79 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gingerich Farms Partnerships 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tolono Research 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Hillcrest 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Morgan Acres, LLC. 19 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 Bickford of Sioux City I 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bickford of Lancaster 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LAS - Ground Ops 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerald Meadows 17.8 TCR

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: 2020, 2019. 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.