Construction management, highway, road, street and bridge · Illinois

City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction

Chicago, IL · ~542 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction runs at 222% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction management, highway, road, street and bridge workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction: 6.2 TCR = 222% of Construction management, highway, road, street and bridge BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction safety composite

City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−0.7

2020→2021

City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction injury rate improved

City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction's TCR fell 0.7 from 6.6 in 2020 to 5.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.6 · 2021=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.2 · 222% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #139/266
  • PHOTO Region 4- Bend Bldg B
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~542 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Region 4- Bend Bldg B (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction averages 6.2 TCR (222% of the Construction management, highway, road, street and bridge BLS benchmark).

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

City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction TCR series: 2020=6.6 · 2021=5.8 · BLS 2.8

Where City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction falls in its industry

4,078 Construction management, highw establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #139 safest of 266 Construction management, highw employers in Illinois.

City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction (542 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction
City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction (542 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction has more employees than the Construction management, highway, road, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2021 5.8 5.7 31 2 0
2020 6.6 6.4 37 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Chicago

4,078 Construction management, highway, road, street and bridge 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 Region 4- Bend Bldg B 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smoky Hill Construction 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jay Fulkroad & Sons, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OEL Construction Services Inc. 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMS Mechanical Systems, Inc 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velocitel, Inc. 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE Polk 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE Global Specialty Fulfillment : STL6 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Interim HealthCare - Keene 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cooper Farms Processing 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #090 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR TelStaffing & HR 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Technica LLC - Fort Bliss 542 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Occasions Group Inc. - 0156-MNNO3 542 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Lynnwood 542 FTE
NAT-SIZE Footlocker.com, Inc. - DC 542 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.