Delivery service (except as part of intercity carrier network, U.S. Postal Service) · Illinois

Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc.

Hillside, IL · ~145 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc. runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Delivery service (except as part of intercity carrier network, U.S. Postal Service) workplace, earning a grade D.

Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc.: 8.1 TCR = 181% of Delivery service (except as part of intercity carrier network, U.S. Postal Service) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc. safety composite

Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 11.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc.: 4.8 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2017

Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc.'s TCR rose 6.7 from 4.8 in 2016 to 11.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492210 · Hillside, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.1 · 181% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #32/81
  • PHOTO HPB2
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HPB2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc. averages 8.1 TCR (181% of the Delivery service (except as part of intercity carrier network, U.S. Postal Service) BLS benchmark).

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

Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=11.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc. falls in its industry

1,452 Delivery service (except as pa establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 11.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 81 Delivery service (except as pa employers in Illinois.

Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc. (145 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 11.8 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc.
Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc. (145 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 11.8

Veterans Distribution of Chicago, Inc. has more employees than the Delivery service (except as part of inte median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 11.8. 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 11.5 11.5 13 0 0
2016 4.8 1.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492210 · IL · Hillside

1,452 Delivery service (except as part of intercity carrier network, U.S. Postal Service) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 43 employers in Hillside, 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 HPB2 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillside Logistics LLC dba Veterans Distribution of Chicago 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delivery Service Provider 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lola Logistics LLC 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Baldwin Energy Complex 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sterling Commercial Roofing 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE FE Moran Fire Protection South 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2000 Plus Groups, Inc, d/b/a Crescent Foods 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillside 1 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5132-SEG1-5132 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 300 CRAIG PLACE 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillside 2 289 FTE
NAT-TCR Elm Grove (Wielm) 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Santa Rosa Care Center 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Coastal Beverage Company, Inc. - Pollocksville 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sleepy Eye, MN 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Front Royal (Vafro) 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Muskegon (Mimus) 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forest Park Fs (Gafrp) 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Texas Operations 145 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.