Elementary schools · Illinois

Lake Bluff Middle School

Lake Bluff, IL · ~66 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Bluff Middle School runs at 336% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Lake Bluff Middle School: 4.7 TCR = 336% of Elementary schools BLS 1.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Bluff Middle School safety composite

Lake Bluff Middle School scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.06 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%).

Rising injury rate

Lake Bluff Middle School: 3.5 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

Lake Bluff Middle School's TCR rose 4.7 from 3.5 in 2017 to 8.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Lake Bluff, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 336% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #212/312
  • PHOTO Pine River-Backus Sc…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pine River-Backus Schools (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake Bluff Middle School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Bluff Middle School averages 4.7 TCR (336% of the Elementary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Lake Bluff Middle School TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=3.7 · 2021=7.4 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 1.4

Where Lake Bluff Middle School falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary schools establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #212 safest of 312 Elementary schools employers in Illinois.

Lake Bluff Middle School (66 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 Lake Bluff Middle School
Lake Bluff Middle School (66 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Lake Bluff Middle School has fewer employees than the Elementary 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
2024 8.2 2.1 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.5 0.0 3 0 0
2021 7.4 1.8 4 0 0
2019 3.7 1.8 1 1 0
2018 3.6 1.8 1 1 0
2017 3.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · Lake Bluff

3,374 Elementary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 27 employers in Lake Bluff, 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 Pine River-Backus Schools 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otsego Elementary School 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Braeburn School 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR W B GOODWIN ELEMENTARY 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE NG Schaumburg Reporting Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Boldt Company - Chicago, IL 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Underground Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DDC3 1,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DCH4 1,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCI ENERGY SERVICES, LLC 533 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mariani Landscape 488 FTE
NAT-TCR Mahuta Tool Corp 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Joseph Jensen Filtration Plant 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Button & Turkovich, LLC 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EDCO Waste and Recycling 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Ave - Albany 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hardwood Creations - Main Office 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITC-Turlock 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Hall 66 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, 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.