Colleges, community · Illinois

Black Hawk College

Moline, IL · ~390 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Hawk College runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Colleges, community workplace, earning a grade D.

Black Hawk College: 2.3 TCR = 161% of Colleges, community BLS 1.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Hawk College safety composite

Black Hawk College scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Black Hawk College held a steady TCR band

Black Hawk College's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.3 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.3 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Moline, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #27/34
  • PHOTO Illinois Valley Comm…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~390 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Illinois Valley Community College (IVCC) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Hawk College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Hawk College averages 2.3 TCR (161% of the Colleges, community BLS benchmark).

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

Black Hawk College TCR series: 2017=1.3 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=1.4 · BLS 1.4

Where Black Hawk College falls in its industry

127 Colleges, community establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 34 Colleges, community employers in Illinois.

Black Hawk College (390 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Black Hawk College
Black Hawk College (390 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Black Hawk College has fewer employees than the Colleges, community median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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
2022 1.4 0.9 3 0 0
2021 1.4 0.9 3 0 0
2020 2.9 2.4 2 4 0
2019 3.4 1.3 8 0 0
2018 3.1 1.1 8 0 0
2017 1.3 0.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · IL · Moline

127 Colleges, community employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 103 employers in Moline, 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 Illinois Valley Community College (IVCC) 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triton College Dist 504 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triton College 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridgewater College - Hutchinson Campus 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE NPL Great Lakes LLC - Illinois 390 FTE
STATE-SIZE YRV 390 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALM 390 FTE
STATE-SIZE McLeod Express Decatur Terminal 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deere & Company 4,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Seeding Group 625 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seeding - Moline 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Moline 432 FTE
NAT-TCR Ashley HomeStore 32 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Raba Kistner Dallas RKI - Southern Gateway 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0055 Tyson Foods Inc. - Waterloo 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ED Staub & Sons 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Welsh 390 FTE
NAT-SIZE Century Aluminum Mt. Holly 390 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bekaert Van Buren (BKVB) 390 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Clare Hospital-Baraboo 390 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.