Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge · Illinois

City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management

Chicago, IL · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management: 5.6 TCR = 200% of Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management safety composite

City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management: 2.2 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.6× in 2021

City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management's TCR rose 6.7 from 2.2 in 2020 to 8.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 200% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #131/266
  • PHOTO Covington AHQ
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Covington AHQ (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management averages 5.6 TCR (200% of the Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge BLS benchmark).

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

City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management TCR series: 2020=2.2 · 2021=8.9 · BLS 2.8

Where City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management falls in its industry

4,078 Sign erection, highway, roads establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #131 safest of 266 Sign erection, highway, roads employers in Illinois.

City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management (43 employees, TCR 5.6) 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, Sign Management
City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management (43 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management has fewer employees than the Sign erection, highway, roads street or 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 8.9 8.9 4 0 0
2020 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Chicago

4,078 Sign erection, highway, roads street or 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 Covington AHQ 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ottawa County Road Commission 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haines & Kibblehouse, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Operations Building 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stratum Reservoir, LLC - Champaign 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - East St. Louis 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manlove Storage Field 43 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 Main Location 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NEX Transport (ELP) 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NEX Transport (MAP) 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MMK Brea 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Symbii Salt Lake 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lifesprk at Summit Place Senior Campus 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avnatara Clark City 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fountains at Hidden Lakes 43 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.