General medical and surgical hospitals · Illinois

Advocate Sherman Hospital

Elgin, IL · ~1,717 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Advocate Sherman Hospital runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Advocate Sherman Hospital: 6.2 TCR = 83% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Advocate Sherman Hospital safety composite

Advocate Sherman Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.4

2016→2023

Advocate Sherman Hospital injury rate improved

Advocate Sherman Hospital's TCR fell 1.4 from 5.8 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.8 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=6.0 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=10.7 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Elgin, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 6.2 · 83% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #184/300
  • PHOTO BMC - Baystate Medic…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 563 inj
  • SIZE ~1,717 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BMC - Baystate Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Advocate Sherman Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Advocate Sherman Hospital averages 6.2 TCR (83% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Advocate Sherman Hospital TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=6 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=10.7 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=4.4 · BLS 7.5

Where Advocate Sherman Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #184 safest of 300 General medical and surgical h employers in Illinois.

Advocate Sherman Hospital (1,717 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Advocate Sherman Hospital
Advocate Sherman Hospital (1,717 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Advocate Sherman Hospital has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 4.4 2.1 64 0 0
2022 4.9 2.1 77 1 0
2021 6.9 3.6 81 7 0
2020 10.7 8.3 59 74 0
2019 4.7 2.5 56 2 0
2018 6.0 3.5 73 3 0
2017 6.6 4.2 80 4 0
2016 5.8 3.3 73 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IL · Elgin

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, 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 BMC - Baystate Medical Center 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lutheran Downtown Hospital formerly St Joe Hospital 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Shore University Hospital 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnetonka Medical Center 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chicago Uber Tech 1,718 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin City Staffing-MN 1,723 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint Anthony Medical Center 1,725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elgin 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin 774 FTE
CITY-NEAR Presence St. Joseph Hospital Elgin 761 FTE
NAT-TCR WW Wood, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Portland Group Framingham 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR USM Store #696 (MARKET STREET) 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sloan Kettering Institute Corporation (SKI) 1,717 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Fulfillment Center (OFC) 1,717 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-NYBIN1 1,718 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHRISTUS Spohn Shoreline 1,718 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.