Building cleaning services, janitorial · Illinois

ESS Clean, Inc.

Name: ESS Clean, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
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Urbana, IL · ~434 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.7
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

ESS Clean, Inc. runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Building cleaning services, janitorial workplace, earning a grade B.

ESS Clean, Inc.: 2.7 TCR = 60% of Building cleaning services, janitorial BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ESS Clean, Inc. safety composite

ESS Clean, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

ESS Clean, Inc.: 0.6 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.72× in 2024

ESS Clean, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.1 from 0.6 in 2018 to 5.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561720 · Urbana, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 60% of ind

DART 4.6 DART
RANK #71/189
PHOTO Dadeland Mall
BOOK 5y book
INJ 25 inj
SIZE ~434 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dadeland Mall (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows ESS Clean, Inc. averages 2.7 TCR (60% of the Building cleaning services, janitorial BLS benchmark).

ESS Clean, Inc. TCR series: 2018=0.6 · 2019=2 · 2022=2 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 4.5

Where ESS Clean, Inc. falls in its industry

4,064 Building cleaning services, ja establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #71 safest of 189 Building cleaning services, ja employers in Illinois.

ESS Clean, Inc. (434 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2

ESS Clean, Inc. has more employees than the Building cleaning services, janitorial median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2024	5.7	4.6	11	0
2023	3.2	3.2	5	1
2022	2.0	1.5	4	0
2019	2.0	1.5	4	0
2018	0.6	0.0	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561720 · IL · Urbana

4,064 Building cleaning services, janitorial employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 95 employers in Urbana, 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	Dadeland Mall	KENDALL, FL	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ES-St Alexius MC	HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	LaFollette Medical Center - EVS	LAFOLLETTE, TN	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SODEXO AT AURORA UNIVERSITY	AURORA, IL	2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Naperville Handi-Foil	NAPERVILLE	434 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NAIC3	EDWARDSVILLE	434 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1998	SKOKIE	434 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mascoutah CUSD #19	MASCOUTAH	434 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Urbana Campus	Urbana	23,671 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CARLE	Urbana	18,152 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL	Urbana	8,566 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Heart of Mary Medical Center	Urbana	651 FTE
NAT-TCR	Bank1 Mgmt	Phoenix, AZ	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Missouri So St Uni	Joplin, MO	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	6675 Folsom	Folsom, CA	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	5324-Timberline Disposal	Silverthorne, CO	2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ArcBest Technologies 991	Fort Smith, AR	434 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jinko Solar U.S. Industries	Jacksonville, FL	434 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Operations Center-Dtmb	Dimondale, MI	434 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Suburban MFG	Dayton, TN	434 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, 2019, 2018. 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.