Middle schools · Illinois

Friendship Junior High School

Des Plaines, IL · ~85 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Friendship Junior High School runs at 471% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Middle schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Friendship Junior High School: 6.6 TCR = 471% of Middle schools BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Friendship Junior High School safety composite

Friendship Junior High School scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Friendship Junior High School: 4.7 → 15.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2021

Friendship Junior High School's TCR rose 10.9 from 4.7 in 2017 to 15.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Des Plaines, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 471% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #256/312
  • PHOTO Palos West Elementar…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Palos West Elementary School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Friendship Junior High School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Friendship Junior High School averages 6.6 TCR (471% of the Middle schools BLS benchmark).

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

Friendship Junior High School TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=4.7 · 2021=15.6 · BLS 1.4

Where Friendship Junior High School falls in its industry

3,374 Middle schools establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #256 safest of 312 Middle schools employers in Illinois.

Friendship Junior High School (85 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Friendship Junior High School
Friendship Junior High School (85 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Friendship Junior High School has more employees than the Middle schools median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 15.6 6.2 10 0 0
2019 4.7 4.7 3 0 0
2018 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2017 4.7 4.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · Des Plaines

3,374 Middle schools 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 Palos West Elementary School 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robert Frost Elementary School 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holland Woods Middle School 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southview Elementary School 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Atkinson 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Utica UTI1 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monmouth, IL 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton Power Station 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR JAN-FL-TPA 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Harding's Friendly Market #398 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hobart Service, Newark 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Boulevard 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Action Floor Systems, LLC 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Health Roper Mt 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #615 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #089 85 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, 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.