Employer · Illinois

Zoo Food Court

Chicago, IL · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zoo Food Court runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Zoo Food Court: 4.8 TCR = 161% of industry BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zoo Food Court safety composite

Zoo Food Court scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Zoo Food Court: 0.0 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.56× in 2024

Zoo Food Court's TCR rose 7.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 161% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #218/364
  • PHOTO Thacher School Caf
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thacher School Caf (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zoo Food Court in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zoo Food Court averages 4.8 TCR (161% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Zoo Food Court TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.0

Where Zoo Food Court falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #218 safest of 364 industry employers in Illinois.

Zoo Food Court (30 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Food Court
Zoo Food Court (30 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Zoo Food Court 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 7.5 7.5 1 0 0
2023 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 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 Thacher School Caf 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT DELTA RESERVATIONS 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR U of Ark Pomfret 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kokomo School Corporation 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Odell Fire 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago Loop Tech 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 30 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 U of Ark Pomfret 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6988 Se Military 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pajarito Mountain Recreation LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6030 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mhhs-Pearland Hosp 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hialeah Hospital 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE UF Panda RU 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson-Madison County Evs 30 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, 2023, 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.