Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Illinois

City of Highland Police Department

Highland, IL · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Highland Police Department runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Highland Police Department: 4.2 TCR = 132% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Highland Police Department safety composite

City of Highland Police Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−8.5

2023→2024

City of Highland Police Department injury rate improved

City of Highland Police Department's TCR fell 8.5 from 8.5 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Highland, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/110
  • PHOTO LVMPD - DSD
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LVMPD - DSD (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Highland Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Highland Police Department averages 4.2 TCR (132% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Highland Police Department TCR series: 2023=8.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Highland Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 110 Police departments (except Ame employers in Illinois.

City of Highland Police Department (28 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Highland Police Department
City of Highland Police Department (28 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of Highland Police Department has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 8.5 4.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IL · Highland

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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 LVMPD - DSD 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Juneau Police Department 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - New Orleans 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - Detroit 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 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 Econolite Systems, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellows Plumbing, Heating & Air - Marin 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fitzgerald Finishing LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR S & S Machine Shop, Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fiber Char 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE CBSI Bladensburg 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gator Orlando 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cowtown Dallas 28 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.