Employer · Illinois

Maine West High School

Des Plaines, IL · ~273 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Maine West High School runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Maine West High School: 2.1 TCR = 151% of industry BLS 1.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Maine West High School safety composite

Maine West High School scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

Maine West High School: 1.8 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2024

Maine West High School's TCR rose 1.7 from 1.8 in 2018 to 3.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Des Plaines, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.1 · 151% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #87/312
  • PHOTO Adams Elementary Sch…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~273 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Adams Elementary School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Maine West High School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Maine West High School averages 2.1 TCR (151% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Maine West High School TCR series: 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 1.4

Where Maine West High School falls in its industry

3,374 industry establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #87 safest of 312 industry employers in Illinois.

Maine West High School (273 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Maine West High School
Maine West High School (273 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Maine West High School has more employees than the industry median and a lower 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 3.5 0.9 8 0 0
2023 2.6 1.8 6 0 0
2022 2.2 0.4 5 0 0
2021 1.4 0.9 3 0 0
2020 1.8 0.9 4 0 0
2019 1.4 0.0 4 0 0
2018 1.8 1.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · Des Plaines

3,374 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 174 employers in Des Plaines, 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 Adams Elementary School 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Easton Middle School 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MMSTC & (MS)2TC, MSVPA 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeview Elementary 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Land O'Frost Lansing 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schulze & Burch Biscuit Co 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lyndale 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loves Park 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Sun Services 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR p&g manufacturing 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cable Wiring Specialist, inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TransMontaigne Martinez Facility 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health Puerto Rico LLC 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCV Contracting, Inc. 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE NSK Corporation 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Virginia's Choice, Inc. - Morgantown 273 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, 2020, 2019, 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.