Employer · Illinois

Val 53

Chicago, IL · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Val 53 runs at 658% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Val 53: 22.4 TCR = 658% of industry BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Val 53 safety composite

Val 53 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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 22.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.88 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.0

2017→2020

Val 53 injury rate improved

Val 53's TCR fell 7.0 from 27.8 in 2017 to 20.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 33.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=27.8 · 2018=33.6 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=20.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 22.4 · 658% of ind

  • DART 13.9 DART
  • RANK #1289/1293
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0240 Lo…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0240 Los Angeles (0.0 TCR gap)

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Val 53 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Val 53 averages 22.4 TCR (658% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Val 53 TCR series: 2017=27.8 · 2018=33.6 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=20.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Val 53 falls in its industry

30,654 industry establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #1289 safest of 1293 industry employers in Illinois.

Val 53 (20 employees, TCR 22.4) 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 53
Val 53 (20 employees, TCR 22.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Val 53 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 20.8 13.9 3 0 0
2019 7.2 7.2 1 0 0
2018 33.6 26.9 4 1 0
2017 27.8 18.6 3 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0240 Los Angeles 22.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0251 Culver City 22.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0507 Nashua 22.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0237 Los Angeles 22.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Ridge 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay Creek 4 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deer Run 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand View Farms, LLC. 20 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 SunnyBrook of Muscatine 22.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0240 Los Angeles 22.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Feld Entertainment - MUL 22.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency Village at Prineville 22.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Val 21 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Web 25 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Web 29 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Web 40 20 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.