Individual and family social services, multi-purpose · Illinois

Educare Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~57 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Educare Chicago runs at 273% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Individual and family social services, multi-purpose workplace, earning a grade F.

Educare Chicago: 10.4 TCR = 273% of Individual and family social services, multi-purpose BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Educare Chicago safety composite

Educare Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−20.8

2020→2024

Educare Chicago injury rate improved

Educare Chicago's TCR fell 20.8 from 23.0 in 2020 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 23.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=23.0 · 2021=18.7 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624190 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 273% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #34/35
  • PHOTO WCCS-MCHS-640 OLD CA…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WCCS-MCHS-640 OLD CAIN RIDGE ROAD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Educare Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Educare Chicago averages 10.4 TCR (273% of the Individual and family social services, multi-purpose BLS benchmark).

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

Educare Chicago TCR series: 2020=23 · 2021=18.7 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Educare Chicago falls in its industry

990 Individual and family social s establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 35 Individual and family social s employers in Illinois.

Educare Chicago (57 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Educare Chicago
Educare Chicago (57 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Educare Chicago has fewer employees than the Individual and family social services, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2024 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.6 0.0 3 0 0
2021 18.7 8.0 7 0 0
2020 23.0 17.9 0 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624190 · IL · Chicago

990 Individual and family social services, multi-purpose 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 WCCS-MCHS-640 OLD CAIN RIDGE ROAD 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PPOSBC - Santa Ana 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR FirstSteps for Kids - West Los Angeles, Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Battle Creek Center 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Concrete, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centennial Contractors of the Quad Cities, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Carpentry, Inc. 57 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 Town Village of Vestavia Hills 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CMS Ponce 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0961 - Cary 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sioux City IA 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 133-JUNCTION 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE 136-BLANCO 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Josephs - Rehabilitation 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allnex USA Inc. 57 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.