General public administration · Illinois

City of Highland, IL

Highland, IL · ~269 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Highland, IL runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade C.

City of Highland, IL: 3.5 TCR = 111% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Highland, IL safety composite

City of Highland, IL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−2.5

2019→2023

City of Highland, IL injury rate improved

City of Highland, IL's TCR fell 2.5 from 6.2 in 2019 to 3.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.2 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Highland, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 111% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #58/213
  • PHOTO County Administration
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~269 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: County Administration (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Highland, IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Highland, IL averages 3.5 TCR (111% of the General public administration BLS benchmark).

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

City of Highland, IL TCR series: 2019=6.2 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Highland, IL falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 213 General public administration employers in Illinois.

City of Highland, IL (269 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Highland, IL
City of Highland, IL (269 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Highland, IL has more employees than the General public administration median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2023 3.7 1.9 2 0 0
2022 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.5 0.6 4 2 0
2019 6.2 2.8 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · IL · Highland

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 40 employers in Highland, 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 County Administration 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Normal - Parks & Recreation 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bob Keefer Center 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cityof Lindstrom 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Plumbing & Heating Company 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE 010RCK-010-JLCLARK - ROCKFORD 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Fox River - 0785 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE 531-00501 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR HIGHLAND IL 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 435 337 FTE
CITY-NEAR Basler Electric Company - Highland 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR 435 292 FTE
NAT-TCR 201 - Athens 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Leer Electric, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stone Catering 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pampa Service Center-062 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0328 - Cranberry Township Pa Whs 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE PUBLCOOC 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Foods Seattle 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alta Ski Lifts Co 269 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.