Opera companies · Illinois

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~1,076 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lyric Opera of Chicago runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Opera companies workplace, earning a grade B.

Lyric Opera of Chicago: 2.3 TCR = 75% of Opera companies BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lyric Opera of Chicago safety composite

Lyric Opera of Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−1.2

2023→2024

Lyric Opera of Chicago injury rate improved

Lyric Opera of Chicago's TCR fell 1.2 from 2.9 in 2023 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.9 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 711110 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 75% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Stephen Sondheim The…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~1,076 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stephen Sondheim Theatre (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lyric Opera of Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lyric Opera of Chicago averages 2.3 TCR (75% of the Opera companies BLS benchmark).

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

Lyric Opera of Chicago TCR series: 2023=2.9 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.1

Where Lyric Opera of Chicago falls in its industry

122 Opera companies establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 8 Opera companies employers in Illinois.

Lyric Opera of Chicago (1,076 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 7.3 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Lyric Opera of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago (1,076 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 7.3

Lyric Opera of Chicago has more employees than the Opera companies median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.3. 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 1.7 1.3 4 0 0
2023 2.9 0.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

711110 · IL · Chicago

122 Opera companies 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 Stephen Sondheim Theatre 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sundance Institute 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LINCOLN CENTER THEATER 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orlando Repertory Theatre 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DDC3 1,075 FTE
STATE-SIZE B and B Maintenance, Inc. 1,077 FTE
STATE-SIZE Triton College 1,077 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC 1,070 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 Pilgrim's Pride Athens Truck Shop 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Doug Andrus Distributing LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Branan Lodge 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jennmar Specialty Cedar Bluff 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - BOS5 1,076 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sh4260 Ranch 1,076 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ol4800 Ranch 1,076 FTE
NAT-SIZE Do3237 Ranch 1,076 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. 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.