Water treatment and distribution · Illinois

City of Oak Forest - Public Works

Oak Forest, IL · ~123 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Oak Forest - Public Works runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade C.

City of Oak Forest - Public Works: 1.1 TCR = 94% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Oak Forest - Public Works safety composite

City of Oak Forest - Public Works scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City of Oak Forest - Public Works: 0.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2019

City of Oak Forest - Public Works's TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Oak Forest, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #8/60
  • PHOTO Pine Bluff Office
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pine Bluff Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Oak Forest - Public Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Oak Forest - Public Works averages 1.1 TCR (94% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

City of Oak Forest - Public Works TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.3 · BLS 1.2

Where City of Oak Forest - Public Works falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 60 Water treatment and distributi employers in Illinois.

City of Oak Forest - Public Works (123 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Oak Forest - Public Works
City of Oak Forest - Public Works (123 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

City of Oak Forest - Public Works has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2019 2.3 1.6 3 0 0
2018 1.1 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · IL · Oak Forest

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 26 employers in Oak Forest, 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 Pine Bluff Office 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Si Environmental, LLC - Cypress 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belle Mead Production 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kanawha Valley Water Treatment Plant 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Midwest (Chicago) 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reyes Group Ltd 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iroquois Paving Corporation 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA IL Oak Brook 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR OAK FOREST 765 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARBOR - ARBOR PARK SD 145 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legendary Baking Oak Forest 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003163 186 FTE
NAT-TCR Smm Group Houston 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 215 - Eden Prairie 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 139 - Athens 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Imperial Youngstown 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE US OH Massillon Plant 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nalco Champion - Corsicana 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE FGG Mississippi 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE 325 - Gaithersburg 123 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.