Middle schools · Illinois

Chippewa Middle School

Des Plaines, IL · ~776 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chippewa Middle School runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Middle schools workplace, earning a grade A.

Chippewa Middle School: 0.4 TCR = 26% of Middle schools BLS 1.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chippewa Middle School safety composite

Chippewa Middle School scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Chippewa Middle School: 0.0 → 0.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2024

Chippewa Middle School's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Des Plaines, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #14/312
  • PHOTO Farmington High School
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~776 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farmington High School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chippewa Middle School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chippewa Middle School averages 0.4 TCR (26% of the Middle schools BLS benchmark).

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

Chippewa Middle School TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0.2 · 2021=0.2 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Chippewa Middle School falls in its industry

3,374 Middle schools establishments

Safer than 98% 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 #14 safest of 312 Middle schools employers in Illinois.

Chippewa Middle School (776 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Chippewa Middle School
Chippewa Middle School (776 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Chippewa Middle School has more employees than the Middle schools median and a lower 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 0.7 0.1 6 0 0
2023 1.5 0.0 9 0 0
2022 0.3 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · Des Plaines

3,374 Middle schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 174 employers in Des Plaines, 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 Farmington High School 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blake School (The) Northrup Campus 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD 492 Austin IJ Holton Intermediate 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belle Plaine Senior High 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prospect Airport Services ORD DL/T5 776 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maintenance 776 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plainfield Elementary School 776 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iroquois Community School 776 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Hubbell Power Systems, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bryan Tool & Machining, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR S07246 - Detroit Container Shop 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Owens & Minor Tracy 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Community Services for Autistic Adults and Children (CSAAC) 776 FTE
NAT-SIZE CLV 776 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta 776 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando Combo 776 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.