Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge · Illinois

Dekalb County Government-Highway Department

Name: Dekalb County Government-Highway Department Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Dekalb, IL · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.7
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Dekalb County Government-Highway Department runs at 274% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge workplace, earning a grade F.

Dekalb County Government-Highway Department: 7.7 TCR = 274% of Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dekalb County Government-Highway Department safety composite

Dekalb County Government-Highway Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Dekalb County Government-Highway Department: 5.1 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2023

Dekalb County Government-Highway Department's TCR rose 5.2 from 5.1 in 2022 to 10.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Dekalb, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 274% of ind

DART 5.1 DART
RANK #155/266
PHOTO S & N, Inc. and Subs…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S & N, Inc. and Subsidiaries (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Dekalb County Government-Highway Department averages 7.7 TCR (274% of the Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge BLS benchmark).

Dekalb County Government-Highway Department TCR series: 2022=5.1 · 2023=10.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Dekalb County Government-Highway Department falls in its industry

4,078 Sign erection, highway, roads establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #155 safest of 266 Sign erection, highway, roads employers in Illinois.

Dekalb County Government-Highway Department (22 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Dekalb County Government-Highway Department has fewer employees than the Sign erection, highway, roads street or median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023	10.3	5.1	2	0	0
2022	5.1	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Dekalb

4,078 Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 93 employers in Dekalb, 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	S & N, Inc. and Subsidiaries	MERRILL, WI	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT	PRINCETON, IL	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Alcona County Road Commission	LINCOLN, MI	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	D214826 Syracuse	LIVERPOOL, NY	7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Tolono Main	TOLONO	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Anna Evergreen, LLC	COBDEN	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sunset	CLINTON	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cedarcrest, LLC.	TABLE GROVE	22 FTE
CITY-NEAR	3842 - UDC-DeKalb	Dekalb	1,635 FTE
CITY-NEAR	3842 - DeKalb UDC	Dekalb	1,411 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital	Dekalb	1,067 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DeKalb Community Unit School District #428	Dekalb	940 FTE
NAT-TCR	I C Reed and Sons Inc	Raymond, NH	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Korfhage Landscape & Designs	Louisville, KY	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	First Class Vending	Bell Gardens, CA	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Summerwinds Campbell	Campbell, CA	7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Townsend Machine, Inc.	Chesterfield, NJ	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Grocery Haulers, Inc Glen Gardner, NJ	Glen Gardner, NJ	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ragland Mills, Inc	Neosho, MO	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Legacy Commercial Cleaning, LLC - Cleveland	Cleveland, OH	22 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: 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.