Loading and unloading services at rail terminals · Illinois

YARDCENTER

Dolton, IL · ~53 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

YARDCENTER runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Loading and unloading services at rail terminals workplace, earning a grade B.

YARDCENTER: 3.0 TCR = 66% of Loading and unloading services at rail terminals BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

YARDCENTER safety composite

YARDCENTER scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

YARDCENTER: 0.0 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.65× in 2020

YARDCENTER's TCR rose 4.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Dolton, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 66% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #19/36
  • PHOTO Chicago 63rd Street NS
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chicago 63rd Street NS (0.0 TCR gap)

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YARDCENTER in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows YARDCENTER averages 3.0 TCR (66% of the Loading and unloading services at rail terminals BLS benchmark).

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

YARDCENTER TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5.1 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where YARDCENTER falls in its industry

409 Loading and unloading services establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 36 Loading and unloading services employers in Illinois.

YARDCENTER (53 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate YARDCENTER
YARDCENTER (53 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

YARDCENTER has more employees than the Loading and unloading services at rail t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2020 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2019 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.1 5.1 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · IL · Dolton

409 Loading and unloading services at rail terminals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 18 employers in Dolton, 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 Chicago 63rd Street NS 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AITX Railcar Services LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Union Tank Car Company - Cleveland, TX 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR UTC Railcar Repair Services - Waterloo, IA 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flamm Orchards Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Princeton IL Research-PRI2 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2505-Mason City, IL 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie State Generating Company - Corporate Office 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ardagh Glass Inc Dolton 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nursing Home 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR DOLTON IL - 3120 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buds Ambulance Service 125 FTE
NAT-TCR 37 McHenry North 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shields for Families - Training 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer Stores Great Lakes 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rivers Plumbing & Electric, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Russ Darrow Metro Nissan LLC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Family Fields of Phoenix 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scenery Hill Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newburgh-Beacon Bridge 53 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, 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.