Local Municipal Government · Illinois

City of Evanston

Evanston, IL · ~1,062 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Evanston runs at 259% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Local Municipal Government workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Evanston: 8.3 TCR = 259% of Local Municipal Government BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Evanston safety composite

City of Evanston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 Evanston: 6.6 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

City of Evanston's TCR rose 1.2 from 6.6 in 2022 to 7.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Evanston, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 259% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #73/104
  • PHOTO Village of Park Forest
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 193 inj
  • SIZE ~1,062 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Village of Park Forest (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Evanston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Evanston averages 8.3 TCR (259% of the Local Municipal Government BLS benchmark).

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

City of Evanston TCR series: 2022=6.6 · 2023=10.4 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Evanston falls in its industry

1,010 Local Municipal Government establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #73 safest of 104 Local Municipal Government employers in Illinois.

City of Evanston (1,062 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Evanston
City of Evanston (1,062 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Evanston has more employees than the Local Municipal Government 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 Fatalities
2024 7.9 7.3 67 2 0
2023 10.4 8.7 83 3 0
2022 6.6 5.3 43 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · IL · Evanston

1,010 Local Municipal Government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in Evanston, 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 Village of Park Forest 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Durand 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Downs 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Kennewick 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Misericordia Home 1,064 FTE
STATE-SIZE JLL Chicago 1,058 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Rockford 1,058 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wheels, LLC 1,057 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern University 13,993 FTE
CITY-NEAR EVANSTON HOSPITAL 3,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR Citywide 1,020 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Francis Hospital 899 FTE
NAT-TCR Grinder Fabricators & Erectors, INC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Warm Hearth 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Horry County Government 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Turman Lumber Company 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Getinge USA Sales, LLC - One Geoffrey Way 1,062 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milliken & Company- RMC (Corporate Headquarters) 1,062 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Hospital 1,062 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Irving 1,062 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. 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.