City and town managers' offices · Illinois

City of Charleston

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Charleston, IL · ~195 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.3
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

City of Charleston runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Charleston: 7.3 TCR = 229% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Charleston safety composite

City of Charleston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% 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).

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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

City of Charleston: 4.0 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2019

City of Charleston's TCR rose 3.2 from 4.0 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Charleston, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 229% of ind

DART 4.8 DART
RANK #67/104
PHOTO Town of Lexington
BOOK 4y book
INJ 37 inj
SIZE ~195 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Lexington (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows City of Charleston averages 7.3 TCR (229% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

City of Charleston TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=10.5 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=7.1 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Charleston falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 104 City and town managers' office employers in Illinois.

City of Charleston (195 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Charleston has more employees than the City and town managers' offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2019	7.1	4.8	9	0
2018	7.8	0.8	10	0
2017	10.5	2.4	13	0
2016	4.0	2.0	5	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · IL · Charleston

1,010 City and town managers' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 41 employers in Charleston, 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	Town of Lexington	LEXINGTON, SC	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Municipal Government	BENNETTSVILLE, SC	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of LeRoy	LEROY, MN	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Newton Iowa	NEWTON, IA	7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	CDOT-2 N. Lasalle - CDOT Main \| 2 N. Lasalle St.	CHICAGO	195 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kilbourn	KILBOURN	195 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Grunt Style	CAROL STREAM	195 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Midstate Manufacturing	GALESBURG	195 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eastern Illinois University	Charleston	2,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Charleston CUSD #1	Charleston	360 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 612	Charleston	300 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eastern Illinois Area of Special Education	Charleston	267 FTE
NAT-TCR	1134 - BELFOR Wallingford CT	Wallingford, CT	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	25-40 Boulder	Webster, MA	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Apple Farm Collections-SLO, INC.	San Luis Obispo, CA	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Precision Paper Converters	Kaukauna, WI	7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Headquarters	Detroit, MI	195 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Essentra Components	Erie, PA	195 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Daytona Beach Health & Rehabilitation Center	Daytona Beach, FL	195 FTE
NAT-SIZE	FSE Five Star Electric Corp.	Ny, NY	195 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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