Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge · Illinois

Highway Department

Princeton, IL · ~5 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highway Department runs at 273% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge workplace, earning a grade F.

Highway Department: 7.7 TCR = 273% of Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highway Department safety composite

Highway Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−37.0

2017→2024

Highway Department injury rate improved

Highway Department's TCR fell 37.0 from 38.5 in 2017 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 38.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=38.5 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Princeton, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 273% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #154/266
  • PHOTO Alcona County Road C…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~5 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alcona County Road Commission (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highway Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highway Department averages 7.7 TCR (273% of the Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge BLS benchmark).

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

Highway Department TCR series: 2017=38.5 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Highway Department falls in its industry

4,078 Sign erection, highway, roads establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #154 safest of 266 Sign erection, highway, roads employers in Illinois.

Highway Department (5 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Highway Department
Highway Department (5 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Highway Department has fewer employees than the Sign erection, highway, roads street or median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2023 3.1 0.0 2 0 0
2022 4.6 0.0 3 0 0
2021 5.7 0.0 4 0 0
2020 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 4.7 0.0 3 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2017 38.5 22.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Princeton

4,078 Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 33 employers in Princeton, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Alcona County Road Commission 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR D214826 Syracuse 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S & N, Inc. and Subsidiaries 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dekalb County Government-Highway Department 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waste Water Treatment 5 FTE
STATE-SIZE JR Edwards Brushes and Rollers 5 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barton Staffing Solutions, Inc.- MELROSE PARK 5 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barton Staffing Solutions, Inc. CREST HILL 5 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Hardware 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton) 591 FTE
CITY-NEAR Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms Princeton Facility 413 FTE
NAT-TCR Parks and Recreation 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CSC - Houston 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Broken Arrow 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR M. L. Caccamise Electric Corp. 7.7 TCR

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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.