Water distribution · Illinois

DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place

Chicago, IL · ~175 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water distribution workplace, earning a grade D.

DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place: 2.3 TCR = 188% of Water distribution BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place safety composite

DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

Rising injury rate

DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place: 0.5 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.78× in 2024

DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place's TCR rose 3.5 from 0.5 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.3 · 188% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #15/60
  • PHOTO Iowa American Water
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Iowa American Water (0.0 TCR gap)

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DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place averages 2.3 TCR (188% of the Water distribution BLS benchmark).

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

DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place TCR series: 2023=0.5 · 2024=4 · BLS 1.2

Where DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place falls in its industry

727 Water distribution establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 60 Water distribution employers in Illinois.

DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place (175 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place
DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place (175 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place has more employees than the Water distribution median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 4.0 4.0 6 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · IL · Chicago

727 Water distribution 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 Iowa American Water 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6271-020 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inland Empire Utilites Agency 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plainfield Central Region 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDOT-Electrical Operations Division | 2451 S. Ashland Ave. 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Burns Construction Company 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Packaging, Quad Cities 175 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 Buddy's Plant Plus 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR D22 Hartford 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Joy Cone Flagstaff 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Landsberg San Diego 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE CR Lighting & Electric, Inc 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Rosehill 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thrive Life 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Erlanger Ky 175 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.