Academies, elementary or secondary · Illinois

Decatur Public School District No. 61

Decatur, IL · ~1,524 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Decatur Public School District No. 61 runs at 340% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Academies, elementary or secondary workplace, earning a grade F.

Decatur Public School District No. 61: 4.8 TCR = 340% of Academies, elementary or secondary BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Decatur Public School District No. 61 safety composite

Decatur Public School District No. 61 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−6.7

2018→2020

Decatur Public School District No. 61 injury rate improved

Decatur Public School District No. 61's TCR fell 6.7 from 8.1 in 2018 to 1.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.1 · 2020=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Decatur, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 340% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #215/312
  • PHOTO Synergy/Stevens Alte…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 82 inj
  • SIZE ~1,524 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Synergy/Stevens Alternative High School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Decatur Public School District No. 61 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Decatur Public School District No. 61 averages 4.8 TCR (340% of the Academies, elementary or secondary BLS benchmark).

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

Decatur Public School District No. 61 TCR series: 2018=8.1 · 2020=1.4 · BLS 1.4

Where Decatur Public School District No. 61 falls in its industry

3,374 Academies, elementary or secon establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #215 safest of 312 Academies, elementary or secon employers in Illinois.

Decatur Public School District No. 61 (1,524 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Decatur Public School District No. 61
Decatur Public School District No. 61 (1,524 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Decatur Public School District No. 61 has more employees than the Academies, elementary or secondary median and a higher 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
2020 1.4 0.0 12 0 0
2018 8.1 0.6 70 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · Decatur

3,374 Academies, elementary or secondary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 219 employers in Decatur, 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 Synergy/Stevens Alternative High School 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wolcott Board of Education 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMHERST COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ELEMENTARY (100) 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SAC Corporate 1,530 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Foods Corporate Office 1,532 FTE
STATE-SIZE JCG Industries Inc 1,514 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MDW5 1,509 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Facility 2,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Memorial Hospital 1,982 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Staff Offices 1,198 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. Mary's Hospital 1,008 FTE
NAT-TCR 1855-WIMIL86 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grocery Outlet Leola Warehouse 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 2039-Az Player Development 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BR10 Milpitas 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kern Valley State Prison 1,523 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cooley Dickinson Hospital 1,525 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honeywell Aerospace-Sky Harbor 1,523 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 207 1,523 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: 2020, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.