Academies, elementary or secondary · Illinois

Mercer County SD #404

Aledo, IL · ~237 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercer County SD #404 runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Academies, elementary or secondary workplace, earning a grade F.

Mercer County SD #404: 3.0 TCR = 215% of Academies, elementary or secondary BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercer County SD #404 safety composite

Mercer County SD #404 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Mercer County SD #404: 3.5 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Mercer County SD #404's TCR rose 2.4 from 3.5 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Aledo, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 3.0 · 215% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #150/312
  • PHOTO Carthage Elementary …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~237 FTE

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

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Mercer County SD #404 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercer County SD #404 averages 3.0 TCR (215% of the Academies, elementary or secondary BLS benchmark).

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

Mercer County SD #404 TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=2 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=5.9 · BLS 1.4

Where Mercer County SD #404 falls in its industry

3,374 Academies, elementary or secon establishments

Safer than 61% 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 #150 safest of 312 Academies, elementary or secon employers in Illinois.

Mercer County SD #404 (237 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Mercer County SD #404
Mercer County SD #404 (237 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Mercer County SD #404 has more employees than the Academies, elementary or secondary 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
2019 5.9 0.0 9 0 0
2018 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.0 0.0 3 0 0
2016 3.5 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · Aledo

3,374 Academies, elementary or secondary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 14 employers in Aledo, 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 Carthage Elementary School 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD #32 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boulder Bluff Elementary School 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sangaree Middle School 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village of Melrose Park 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICC Group Inc. 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silva International, Inc. 237 FTE
STATE-SIZE Legendary Baking Oak Forest 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Genesis Medical Center Aledo Campus 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne-Genesis, Aledo Hospital-MHS-IA/NE 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 792 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR 792 82 FTE
NAT-TCR Gedia Michigan LP 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR WKW Erbsloeh North America, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ichor Systems - Union City 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR COI Hawaii 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Comfort Keepers/Mirkin & Associates 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE PPD Global Central Laboratories, LLC 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Finisar Corporation Allen 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atwater Admin 237 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.