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
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.
- A
- Excellent Safety Record
- 0.1
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.2
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 1
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Law Office of the Public Defender's OSHA Total Case Rate of 0.1 to the Legal counsel offices, government BLS benchmark of 3.2 (3% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Law Office of the Public Defender's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.2 industry benchmark.
Where Law Office of the Public Defender falls in its industry
134 Legal counsel offices, governm establishmentsSafer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.
Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Legal counsel offices, governm employers in Illinois.
Law Office of the Public Defender has an average TCR of 0.1, which is 3% of the industry average (3.2) for Legal counsel offices, government. This is significantly better than average.
The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.
Trend analysis for Law Office of the Public Defender
Between 2018 and 2020, Law Office of the Public Defender's Total Case Rate improved from 0.2 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 100% decrease across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2018 saw the highest rate, at 0.2, a spread of 0.2 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, Law Office of the Public Defender recorded 1 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 1 injuries shown on this page for Law Office of the Public Defender are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 922130 - Legal counsel offices, government.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,400,000 hours worked = 0.00 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Law Office of the Public Defender (this establishment) | 0.09 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| District attorneys' offices industry avg | 3.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 922130 |
| Illinois state avg (all industries) | 4.73 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Law Office of the Public Defender to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2020: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
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 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Law Office of the Public Defender's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Legal counsel offices, government peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 3% of the Legal counsel offices, government benchmark, Law Office of the Public Defender reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Legal counsel offices, government sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.