Community meals, social services · Illinois

Connections for the Homeless

Name: Connections for the Homeless Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Evanston, IL · ~90 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.6
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Connections for the Homeless runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Community meals, social services workplace, earning a grade A.

Connections for the Homeless: 1.6 TCR = 43% of Community meals, social services BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Connections for the Homeless safety composite

Connections for the Homeless scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

Connections for the Homeless: 0.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

Connections for the Homeless's TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624210 · Evanston, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 43% of ind

DART 1.1 DART
RANK #1/5
PHOTO Philabundance
BOOK 3y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Philabundance (0.0 TCR gap)

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Personal Train

1.7
SMA Healthcare

1.7
This site

1.6
Philabundance

1.6
Akron-Canton R

1.6

What this shows Connections for the Homeless averages 1.6 TCR (43% of the Community meals, social services BLS benchmark).

Connections for the Homeless TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.8

Where Connections for the Homeless falls in its industry

147 Community meals, social servic establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Community meals, social servic employers in Illinois.

Connections for the Homeless (90 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Connections for the Homeless has more employees than the Community meals, social services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024	2.3	1.1	2
2023	2.6	1.3	2
2022	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624210 · IL · Evanston

147 Community meals, social services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in Evanston, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Philabundance	PHILADELPHIA, PA	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Personal Trainer Food	FT WORTH, TX	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank Canton Campus	CANTON, OH	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SMA Healthcare, Inc	DAYTONA BEACH, FL	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	71G - Northern N - IL Gas Ops	EDWARDS	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ILAWC Peoria	PEORIA	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Construction	JOLIET	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Holland Construction Services, Inc	SWANSEA	90 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northwestern University	Evanston	13,993 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EVANSTON HOSPITAL	Evanston	3,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CITY OF EVANSTON	Evanston	1,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Citywide	Evanston	1,020 FTE
NAT-TCR	Neuroscience and Spine Associates, PL	Naples, FL	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Woodland Heights Med	Lufkin, TX	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Russell Plumbing and Heating	Greenville, MI	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Willow Valley Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation	Winston-Salem, NC	1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	W.L. Roenigk, Inc. - New Kensington	New Kensington, PA	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Chase Pecan, LP	San Saba, TX	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sacramento CA DI	Sacramento, CA	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pajarito Mountain Recreation LLC	Los Alamos, NM	90 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. 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.