Legal counsel offices, government · Illinois

Law Office of the Public Defender

Chicago, IL · ~650 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Law Office of the Public Defender runs at 3% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Legal counsel offices, government workplace, earning a grade A.

Law Office of the Public Defender: 0.1 TCR = 3% of Legal counsel offices, government BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Law Office of the Public Defender safety composite

Law Office of the Public Defender scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Law Office of the Public Defender held a steady TCR band

Law Office of the Public Defender's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.2 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 0.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.2 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922130 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 3% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P99
  • PHOTO King County Prosecut…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~650 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: King County Prosecuting Attorney (0.1 TCR gap)

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Law Office of the Public Defender in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Law Office of the Public Defender averages 0.1 TCR (3% of the Legal counsel offices, government BLS benchmark).

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

Law Office of the Public Defender TCR series: 2018=0.2 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Law Office of the Public Defender falls in its industry

92 Legal counsel offices, governm establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Law Office of the Public Defender (650 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Law Office of the Public Defender
Law Office of the Public Defender (650 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Law Office of the Public Defender has more employees than the Legal counsel offices, government median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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 Fatalities
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.2 0.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922130 · IL · Chicago

92 Legal counsel offices, government 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 King County Prosecuting Attorney 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR State's Attorney's Office 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR County Attorney's Office 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR District Attorney 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glanbia Performance Nutrition 948 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Company 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE WHQ 650 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraft Heinz Innovation Center 650 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 Windsor Office 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Oracle Solon 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2636-TEXAS.HOUSTON 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Boston 35 Thomson Pl 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE La Cantera Resort and Spa 650 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lumentum Corporate 650 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Central Turkeys Plant 650 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bermudez,Longo,Diaz-Masso,LLC 650 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: 2020, 2018. 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.