Other Urban Transit Systems · Illinois

259 - North Cook County, Il

Niles, IL · ~150 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

259 - North Cook County, Il runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Other Urban Transit Systems workplace, earning a grade B.

259 - North Cook County, Il: 2.3 TCR = 52% 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 total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2018→2020

259 - North Cook County, Il injury rate improved

259 - North Cook County, Il's TCR fell 1.2 from 3.0 in 2018 to 1.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.0 · 2020=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485119 · Niles, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 52% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #4/13
  • PHOTO 048 Beverly Hills Ca
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 048 Beverly Hills 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 2.3 TCR (52% 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: 2018=3 · 2020=1.7 · BLS 4.5

Where 259 - North Cook County, Il falls in its industry

179 Other Urban Transit Systems establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #4 safest of 13 Other Urban Transit Systems employers in Illinois.

259 - North Cook County, Il (150 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 (150 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 lower 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
2020 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2018 3.0 1.8 5 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 048 Beverly Hills Ca 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 021 Pinole Ca 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 269 - Ut Shuttle Austin, Tx 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 228 - Gsu Panther Express Ga 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - Chicago Office 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE JL Allen Services, Inc. 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE 128 - Archer - United JV 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE 17064 150 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 PnP Hammond 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Anaheim, City Hall 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Hca-Ou Medical Center- Food 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Methodist Behavioral Health Hospital 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Integrated Mission Support Services (Kennedy Space Center) 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schmidt Construction Company 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Good Shepherd Institute for Healthy Living 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer Manufacturing 812 150 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, 2018. 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.