Elementary and secondary schools · Illinois

Community Unit School District #5

Sterling, IL · ~277 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Community Unit School District #5 runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade C.

Community Unit School District #5: 1.6 TCR = 116% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Community Unit School District #5 safety composite

Community Unit School District #5 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.0

2017→2021

Community Unit School District #5 injury rate improved

Community Unit School District #5's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.0 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Sterling, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.6 · 116% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #64/312
  • PHOTO Elementary School
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~277 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elementary School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Community Unit School District #5 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Community Unit School District #5 averages 1.6 TCR (116% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Community Unit School District #5 TCR series: 2017=3 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 1.4

Where Community Unit School District #5 falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 83% 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 #64 safest of 312 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Illinois.

Community Unit School District #5 (277 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Community Unit School District #5
Community Unit School District #5 (277 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Community Unit School District #5 has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.3 0.3 4 0 0
2018 3.8 0.7 11 0 0
2017 3.0 1.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · Sterling

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 72 employers in Sterling, 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 Elementary School 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD 191 Burnsville DEC Diamond Head Educ Cnt 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Office 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE EFFINGHAM IL INDUSTRIAL 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Forest HQ 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE Magnetrol International 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plano Molding - Sandwich 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR HALO Branded Solutions, Inc. 2,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR STIL 1,839 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wahl Clipper Corporation 1,260 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7024 910 FTE
NAT-TCR Danone Minster OH 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Caraustar Recycling 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Electric 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hla Aurora, Ct 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ventura County District Attorney's Office 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZABQ 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0347 - Fortune Park in Whse 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1106 - Pittsfield Township Mi Whse 277 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: 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.