Parks and recreation commission, government · Illinois

Downers Grove Park District

Downers Grove, IL · ~351 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Downers Grove Park District runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Parks and recreation commission, government workplace, earning a grade C.

Downers Grove Park District: 3.7 TCR = 116% of Parks and recreation commission, government BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Downers Grove Park District safety composite

Downers Grove Park District scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.7

2018→2019

Downers Grove Park District injury rate improved

Downers Grove Park District's TCR fell 3.7 from 5.6 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.6 · 2019=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 924120 · Downers Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 116% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #23/63
  • PHOTO Ralph M Parsons Pres…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~351 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ralph M Parsons Preschool (0.0 TCR gap)

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Downers Grove Park District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Downers Grove Park District averages 3.7 TCR (116% of the Parks and recreation commission, government BLS benchmark).

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

Downers Grove Park District TCR series: 2018=5.6 · 2019=1.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Downers Grove Park District falls in its industry

413 Parks and recreation commissio establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 63 Parks and recreation commissio employers in Illinois.

Downers Grove Park District (351 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Downers Grove Park District
Downers Grove Park District (351 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Downers Grove Park District has more employees than the Parks and recreation commission, governm median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2019 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2018 5.6 3.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

924120 · IL · Downers Grove

413 Parks and recreation commission, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 139 employers in Downers Grove, 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 Ralph M Parsons Preschool 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Webster Nursery 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flagstaff Region Two 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR District I - Diamond Head Complex 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE KraftHeinz Granite City 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1497 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5617 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 603 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Medical Group 5,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Support Centers 2,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital 1,958 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADVOCATE CHILDRENS HOSPITALS 1,734 FTE
NAT-TCR Pine Ridge Industries 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Trend Health and Rehab 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Crunchy Rollers, LLC - Main 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fire Department 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rural Hall, NC - A404 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Select Specialty Hospital - Columbus, Inc. 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fresno Fire Department 351 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: 2019, 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.