Community colleges · Illinois

McHenry County College

Crystal Lake, IL · ~695 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McHenry County College runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Community colleges workplace, earning a grade A.

McHenry County College: 0.3 TCR = 21% of Community colleges BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McHenry County College safety composite

McHenry County College scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

McHenry County College held a steady TCR band

McHenry County College's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.4 in 2017 to 0.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.4 · 2018=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Crystal Lake, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 21% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/34
  • PHOTO Hartnell College Eas…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~695 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hartnell College East Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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McHenry County College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McHenry County College averages 0.3 TCR (21% of the Community colleges BLS benchmark).

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

McHenry County College TCR series: 2017=0.4 · 2018=0.2 · BLS 1.4

Where McHenry County College falls in its industry

127 Community colleges establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

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 34 Community colleges employers in Illinois.

McHenry County College (695 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate McHenry County College
McHenry County College (695 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

McHenry County College has more employees than the Community colleges median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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
2018 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.4 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · IL · Crystal Lake

127 Community colleges employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 101 employers in Crystal Lake, 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 Hartnell College East Campus 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Virginia Community College - CS 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skokie Campus 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mountainland Technical College 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Octane Group Inc. 696 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menasha Packaging Company - Edwardsville 9G 694 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILARL284 ASCENSION ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL 696 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILARL327 ASCENSION ST JOSEPH ELGIN 693 FTE
CITY-NEAR Customer Service Crystal Lake Product Center 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1413 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1413 432 FTE
CITY-NEAR WernerCo 430 FTE
NAT-TCR Equipment Share.com Inc 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwire Company Copper Rod Mill 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 200 Crystal A, Data Center 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Linde - Alpha (EPP) 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Emerson Automation Solutions 695 FTE
NAT-SIZE NJ0236CB6 695 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coherent Inc. 695 FTE
NAT-SIZE Customer Care Center/Distribution Control Center - Henry Co 695 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.