Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability · Illinois

Little Friends Inc

Warrenville, IL · ~318 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Little Friends Inc runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability workplace, earning a grade F.

Little Friends Inc: 7.8 TCR = 204% of Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Little Friends Inc safety composite

Little Friends Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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)
D 7.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−2.2

2021→2024

Little Friends Inc injury rate improved

Little Friends Inc's TCR fell 2.2 from 9.2 in 2021 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=9.2 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623210 · Warrenville, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 204% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #62/84
  • PHOTO 6443-483128
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 98 inj
  • SIZE ~318 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6443-483128 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Little Friends Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Little Friends Inc averages 7.8 TCR (204% of the Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS benchmark).

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

Little Friends Inc TCR series: 2021=9.2 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=7 · BLS 3.8

Where Little Friends Inc falls in its industry

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 84 Group homes, intellectual and employers in Illinois.

Little Friends Inc (318 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Little Friends Inc
Little Friends Inc (318 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Little Friends Inc has more employees than the Group homes, intellectual and developmen median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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 7.0 7.0 18 0 0
2023 7.9 4.6 19 0 0
2022 6.9 5.5 15 0 0
2021 9.2 3.6 46 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · IL · Warrenville

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 31 employers in Warrenville, 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 6443-483128 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Croyle-Nielsen Therapeutic Associates, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daughter of Charity of Canossa dba Casa Angelica 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scheck Mechanical Corporation 318 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bag Makers, Inc 318 FTE
STATE-SIZE AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 318 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3893 318 FTE
CITY-NEAR Warrenville - Homebased 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Constellation Nuclear Headquarters at Cantera 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1903 - Warrenville 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Exelon Nuclear Headquarters at Cantera 244 FTE
NAT-TCR Superior Composites Co., LLC 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Demil - Harrington 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Caiwd - Inglewood 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FV Northland Medical Center 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ctnch - Norwich 318 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anheuser-Busch LLC 318 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester Metal Products 318 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper Franklin Mill 318 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.