Other Urban Transit Systems · Illinois

259 North Cook County Il

Niles, IL · ~101 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

259 North Cook County Il runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Urban Transit Systems workplace, earning a grade D.

259 North Cook County Il: 6.1 TCR = 135% of Other Urban Transit Systems BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

259 North Cook County Il safety composite

259 North Cook County Il scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

259 North Cook County Il: 4.0 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2023

259 North Cook County Il's TCR rose 4.2 from 4.0 in 2021 to 8.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485119 · Niles, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 135% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO 183 - La County Metr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 183 - La County Metro South Ca (0.0 TCR gap)

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259 North Cook County Il in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 259 North Cook County Il averages 6.1 TCR (135% of the Other Urban Transit Systems BLS benchmark).

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

259 North Cook County Il TCR series: 2021=4 · 2023=8.2 · BLS 4.5

Where 259 North Cook County Il falls in its industry

179 Other Urban Transit Systems establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Other Urban Transit Systems employers in Illinois.

259 North Cook County Il (101 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 259 North Cook County Il
259 North Cook County Il (101 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 4.0

259 North Cook County Il has more employees than the Other Urban Transit Systems median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2023 8.2 7.2 7 1 0
2021 4.0 2.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485119 · IL · Niles

179 Other Urban Transit Systems employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 111 employers in Niles, 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 183 - La County Metro South Ca 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 044 Livermore Ca 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 588 - King County Kng Wa 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 280 - La Cityride Ca 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Gas Ops 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE DGIL 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brandt Construction Co. 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE MS - Mossville, IL - 1MOI2 (CATERPILLAR COE) 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aerospace Business Groups : Niles 1,010 FTE
CITY-NEAR Airframe Systems : Niles 978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shure Incorporated 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3320 683 FTE
NAT-TCR Cleveland Hatchery (CV) 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Chandler Place 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Salt Lake City 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CFER 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Waterbury Arts Magnet School 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stewart & Stevenson I-10 Branch 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE PORT Plastics, DBA Lehigh Valley Plastics 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Union Concrete and Construction 101 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: 2023, 2021. 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.