Employer · Illinois

Columbus East School

Cicero, IL · ~79 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbus East School runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Columbus East School: 1.5 TCR = 106% of industry BLS 1.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbus East School safety composite

Columbus East School scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Columbus East School: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Columbus East School's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Cicero, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.5 · 106% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #56/312
  • PHOTO Board of Education
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Board of Education (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbus East School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbus East School averages 1.5 TCR (106% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Columbus East School TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Columbus East School falls in its industry

3,374 industry establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 312 industry employers in Illinois.

Columbus East School (79 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbus East School
Columbus East School (79 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Columbus East School has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.5 1.3 2 0 0
2021 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · Cicero

3,374 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 99 employers in Cicero, 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 Board of Education 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cowern Elementary 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD #2155 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD 492 Austin Community Learning 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE NG Crestwood Reporting Center 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodmark ,LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Calumet City Plumbing Company and Heating 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Village of Niles Public Works 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Breakthru Beverage Illinois, LLC. 1,006 FTE
CITY-NEAR J. Sterling Morton High School District 201 938 FTE
CITY-NEAR Breakthru Beverage Illinois - Cicero 770 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARYZTA - Cicero 765 FTE
NAT-TCR Board of Education 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TW Metals - Atlanta 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Elizabeth NJ Home Care 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Supply Technologies- Minneapolis 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE La Verne 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE MediLodge of Tawas City 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE WireTech Inc. 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Porterville Plant 79 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, 2018, 2017. 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.