Community colleges · Illinois

Des Plaines Campus

Des Plaines, IL · ~1,245 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Plaines Campus runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Community colleges workplace, earning a grade B.

Des Plaines Campus: 1.0 TCR = 73% of Community colleges BLS 1.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Plaines Campus safety composite

Des Plaines Campus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Des Plaines Campus held a steady TCR band

Des Plaines Campus's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.8 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.8 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Des Plaines, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 1.0 · 73% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #12/34
  • PHOTO Anoka-Ramsey Communi…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~1,245 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anoka-Ramsey Community College - Cambrdige (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Plaines Campus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Plaines Campus averages 1.0 TCR (73% of the Community colleges BLS benchmark).

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

Des Plaines Campus TCR series: 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=1.1 · BLS 1.4

Where Des Plaines Campus falls in its industry

127 Community colleges establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 34 Community colleges employers in Illinois.

Des Plaines Campus (1,245 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Plaines Campus
Des Plaines Campus (1,245 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Des Plaines Campus has more employees than the Community colleges median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 1.1 1.1 3 2 0
2020 0.6 0.2 3 0 0
2019 1.4 0.5 9 0 0
2018 1.3 0.6 9 0 0
2017 0.8 0.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · IL · Des Plaines

127 Community colleges employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 174 employers in Des Plaines, 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 Anoka-Ramsey Community College - Cambrdige 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kenosha Campus 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota North College - Hibbing Campus 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Paul College 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Skokie Campus 1,245 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1855-ILARL252 1,248 FTE
STATE-SIZE Federal-Mogul Corporation 1,250 FTE
STATE-SIZE Memorial Hospital of Carbondale 1,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheels, LLC 1,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Hydaker-Wheatlake Statewide 876 MI 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pi-Co Precision Fabrication 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stratford, The 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CTS Tampa 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : GSP1 1,244 FTE
NAT-SIZE NBC Sports Group : 1 Blachley Road 1,244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Presbyterian Rust Medical Center 1,246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eversource - Berlin 1,244 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.