Employer · Illinois

Zoo Cafe Brauer

Chicago, IL · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zoo Cafe Brauer runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Zoo Cafe Brauer: 5.6 TCR = 186% of industry BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zoo Cafe Brauer safety composite

Zoo Cafe Brauer scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−11.2

2022→2024

Zoo Cafe Brauer injury rate improved

Zoo Cafe Brauer's TCR fell 11.2 from 11.2 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=11.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 186% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #237/364
  • PHOTO Purchase C-Hub
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Purchase C-Hub (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zoo Cafe Brauer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zoo Cafe Brauer averages 5.6 TCR (186% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Zoo Cafe Brauer TCR series: 2022=11.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Zoo Cafe Brauer falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #237 safest of 364 industry employers in Illinois.

Zoo Cafe Brauer (27 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Zoo Cafe Brauer
Zoo Cafe Brauer (27 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Zoo Cafe Brauer has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 11.2 11.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IL · Chicago

6,952 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 Purchase C-Hub 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weld School District 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Ideas Management- Park University 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Ideas Management- Sikeston 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pizzo Native Plant Nursery, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE C070 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-R&D 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloomington 27 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 4112 Roosevelt 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrisville UT DI 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fireside, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6106 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baptist Health MC-Little Rock 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE CW-Carrollton Reg Med 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orena Mgmt 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hendrick South 27 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: 2024, 2022. 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.