Janitorial services · Illinois

Chicago Public Schools

Chicago, IL · ~49,500 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Chicago Public Schools runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Janitorial services workplace, earning a grade F.

Chicago Public Schools: 9.2 TCR = 204% of Janitorial services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Public Schools safety composite

Chicago Public Schools scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 45% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

Chicago Public Schools: 7.6 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.16× in 2024

Chicago Public Schools's TCR rose 3.2 from 7.6 in 2023 to 10.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561720 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 204% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #171/189
  • PHOTO Brevard Achievement …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~49,500 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brevard Achievement Center - Port Canaveral (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Public Schools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Public Schools averages 9.2 TCR (204% of the Janitorial services BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Public Schools TCR series: 2023=7.6 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Chicago Public Schools falls in its industry

4,064 Janitorial services establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #171 safest of 189 Janitorial services employers in Illinois.

Chicago Public Schools (49,500 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 020,00040,00060,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Public Schools
Chicago Public Schools (49,500 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Chicago Public Schools has more employees than the Janitorial services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2024 10.8 1.5 69 2,438 1
2023 7.6 1.3 0 1,696 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561720 · IL · Chicago

4,064 Janitorial services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Brevard Achievement Center - Port Canaveral 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT SHARP GROSSMONT HOSPITAL HSKP 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ameri-Kleen - Hollister Branch 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR IFBF Property Management, Inc/Attn: HR Employee Health Services 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Urbana Campus 23,671 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abbvie 20,982 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
STATE-SIZE CARLE 18,152 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rush University Medical Center 12,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Chicago 11,617 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant 6484 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Store #316 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rapid Connections 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Teixeira and Sons, LLC 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc., dba Disneyland Resort 38,057 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc. 64,183 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.