Public safety statistics centers, government · Illinois

Cook County Sheriff's Department

Chicago, IL · ~5,469 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cook County Sheriff's Department runs at 257% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Public safety statistics centers, government workplace, earning a grade F.

Cook County Sheriff's Department: 8.2 TCR = 257% of Public safety statistics centers, government BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cook County Sheriff's Department safety composite

Cook County Sheriff's Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

−0.4

2022→2024

Cook County Sheriff's Department injury rate improved

Cook County Sheriff's Department's TCR fell 0.4 from 8.2 in 2022 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.2 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922190 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 257% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Emergency Services
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1,433 inj
  • SIZE ~5,469 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Emergency Services (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cook County Sheriff's Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cook County Sheriff's Department averages 8.2 TCR (257% of the Public safety statistics centers, government BLS benchmark).

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

Cook County Sheriff's Department TCR series: 2022=8.2 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Cook County Sheriff's Department falls in its industry

79 Public safety statistics cente establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Public safety statistics cente employers in Illinois.

Cook County Sheriff's Department (5,469 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 02,0004,0006,000 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Cook County Sheriff's Department
Cook County Sheriff's Department (5,469 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Cook County Sheriff's Department has more employees than the Public safety statistics centers, govern median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 7.8 7.0 441 60 0
2023 8.6 8.1 480 51 0
2022 8.2 7.5 512 24 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922190 · IL · Chicago

79 Public safety statistics centers, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Emergency Services 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grays Harbor County 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Law Enforcement - District 3 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Chatham - 117 E Mulberry Police/Admin Building 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago 5,615 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advocate Medical Group 5,319 FTE
STATE-SIZE Program Productions, LLC 5,622 FTE
STATE-SIZE OSF Saint Francis Medical Center 5,293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Cambridge Sierra Holdings, LLC 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR City of San Luis 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bulloch Fabricating Inc 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dfa Distributing South - Spartanburg Sc 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE UConn Health Center 5,466 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana University Health Care Associates, Inc 5,465 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp 5,460 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exxon Mobil Corporation Houston Campus 5,480 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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