City and town managers' offices · Illinois

City of Springfield

Springfield, IL · ~1,344 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Springfield runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Springfield: 5.9 TCR = 184% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Springfield safety composite

City of Springfield scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2017→2024

City of Springfield injury rate improved

City of Springfield's TCR fell 0.7 from 5.7 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.7 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=5.0 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 184% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #48/104
  • PHOTO Village of Forest Park
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 495 inj
  • SIZE ~1,344 FTE

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

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City of Springfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Springfield averages 5.9 TCR (184% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

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

City of Springfield TCR series: 2017=5.7 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=5 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Springfield falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #48 safest of 104 City and town managers' office employers in Illinois.

City of Springfield (1,344 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 Springfield
City of Springfield (1,344 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Springfield has more employees than the City and town managers' offices 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 5.0 3.7 66 4 0
2023 5.2 3.8 65 0 0
2022 5.0 4.1 60 1 0
2021 7.3 5.5 86 2 0
2020 6.8 5.7 72 21 0
2019 6.3 4.7 79 3 0
2017 5.7 4.3 67 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · IL · Springfield

1,010 City and town managers' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 311 employers in Springfield, 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 Forest Park 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Palmdale 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Livonia 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Lincoln 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walgreens Distribution Center 1,345 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago Cubs Baseball Club LLC 1,342 FTE
STATE-SIZE 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
STATE-SIZE Naperville Ill 1,349 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center 4,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Memorial Hospital 3,837 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Clinic, LLP 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. John's Hospital 2,696 FTE
NAT-TCR Fort Wayne Facility 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St Joseph Mo 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kagome Inc 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Husker ready Mix 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bowling Green Metalforming 1,344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hays Medical Center 1,343 FTE
NAT-SIZE CC Administrative Campus 1,345 FTE
NAT-SIZE Service Electric Company 1,343 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.