Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Illinois

Aurora Police Department

Name: Aurora Police Department Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Aurora, IL · ~396 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.8
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Aurora Police Department runs at 211% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Aurora Police Department: 6.8 TCR = 211% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aurora Police Department safety composite

Aurora Police Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 6.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Aurora Police Department: 5.4 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2023

Aurora Police Department's TCR rose 2.8 from 5.4 in 2022 to 8.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Aurora, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 211% of ind

DART 6.3 DART
RANK #47/110
PHOTO Dept. of Public Safe…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 42 inj
SIZE ~396 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dept. of Public Safety (45) (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Aurora Police Department averages 6.8 TCR (211% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

Aurora Police Department TCR series: 2022=5.4 · 2023=8.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Aurora Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 110 Police departments (except Ame employers in Illinois.

Aurora Police Department (396 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Aurora Police Department has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2023	8.1	6.3	26	5	0
2022	5.4	4.8	16	3	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IL · Aurora

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 325 employers in Aurora, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Dept. of Public Safety (45)	PALMER, AK	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Police - Community Services	RICHMOND, VA	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Detroit	DETROIT, MI	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Morgan County Jail/Sheriff's Office	MARTINSVILLE, IN	6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Ardagh Glass Inc Dolton	DOLTON	396 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tempel Steel Company	CHICAGO	396 FTE
STATE-SIZE	IL06	SCHAUMBURG	396 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1307	BOURBONNAIS	396 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Indian Prairie School District 204	Aurora	3,309 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Factor Aurora	Aurora	2,167 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Rush Copley Medical Center, Inc.	Aurora	2,163 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ANDY FRAIN SERVICES INC	Aurora	2,100 FTE
NAT-TCR	Elm Plating Company	Jackson, MI	6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 0486	Longview, TX	6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Quikrete - Mia3	Doral, FL	6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Stop & Shop 100851	Teaneck, NJ	6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	USM Store #526 (Market Street)	Amarillo, TX	396 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Carmel Clay Parks & Recreation	Carmel, IN	396 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Landover Bus Division	Landover, MD	396 FTE
NAT-SIZE	North America : Kissimmee	Kissimmee, FL	396 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. 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.