Elementary schools · Illinois

Berkeley School District 87

Berkeley, IL · ~383 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berkeley School District 87 runs at 399% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Berkeley School District 87: 5.6 TCR = 399% of Elementary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berkeley School District 87 safety composite

Berkeley School District 87 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.6

2023→2024

Berkeley School District 87 injury rate improved

Berkeley School District 87's TCR fell 4.6 from 7.9 in 2023 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.9 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Berkeley, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.6 · 399% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #236/312
  • PHOTO Fair Oaks Elementary…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~383 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fair Oaks Elementary School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berkeley School District 87 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berkeley School District 87 averages 5.6 TCR (399% of the Elementary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Berkeley School District 87 TCR series: 2023=7.9 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 1.4

Where Berkeley School District 87 falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary schools establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #236 safest of 312 Elementary schools employers in Illinois.

Berkeley School District 87 (383 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Berkeley School District 87
Berkeley School District 87 (383 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Berkeley School District 87 has more employees than the Elementary schools median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 3.3 1.2 8 0 0
2023 7.9 5.0 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · Berkeley

3,374 Elementary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Berkeley, 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 Fair Oaks Elementary School 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rainbows United, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Little Falls Public School District-Community Middle 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BEMIDJI HIGH SCHOOL 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Argo Facility 383 FTE
STATE-SIZE GSI : Assumption 383 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 216 383 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILLPT - LOCKPORT 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5233-SEG1-5233 VT-BERK 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vanee Foods Company 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fuse LLC 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mittera - Chicago 139 FTE
NAT-TCR 07-GIDDINGS 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hot Springs Embassy Suites 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sesdac 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR H.W. Herrell Distributing Company 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holt Construction Corp. 383 FTE
NAT-SIZE GC5 White Sulphur, Gold Creek Foods, LLC. 383 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electroimpact Inc. 383 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montgomery DC 383 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. 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.