Libraries and Archives · Illinois

Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St.

Chicago, IL · ~310 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St. runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Libraries and Archives workplace, earning a grade D.

Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St.: 1.0 TCR = 140% of Libraries and Archives BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St. safety composite

Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−0.7

2023→2024

Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St. injury rate improved

Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St.'s TCR fell 0.7 from 1.3 in 2023 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.3 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 519120 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.0 · 140% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Library Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~310 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Library Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St. averages 1.0 TCR (140% of the Libraries and Archives BLS benchmark).

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

Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St. TCR series: 2023=1.3 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 0.7

Where Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St. falls in its industry

89 Libraries and Archives establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Libraries and Archives employers in Illinois.

Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St. (310 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St.
Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St. (310 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Harold Washington Library | 400 S. State St. has more employees than the Libraries and Archives median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.6 0.6 2 0 0
2023 1.3 1.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

519120 · IL · Chicago

89 Libraries and Archives 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 Library Department 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plumb Memorial Library 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sioux City Library 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allen County Public Library 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE NPL Great Lakes LLC - Special Projects 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grecian Delight Foods 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Avenue Facility 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beauty Quest Group 310 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 Winchester Va - 204 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR iCare Health Management, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jim Piontek Trucking Inc 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Warehouse 3 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Salt Lake City Refinery 310 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zoetis GMS North 310 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hagie Manufacturing 310 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin United Methodist Community dba Otterbein Franklin 310 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.