Vocational rehabilitation agencies · Illinois

New Star Inc

Chicago Heights, IL · ~362 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Star Inc runs at 261% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vocational rehabilitation agencies workplace, earning a grade F.

New Star Inc: 9.9 TCR = 261% of Vocational rehabilitation agencies BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Star Inc safety composite

New Star Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

−10.4

2016→2021

New Star Inc injury rate improved

New Star Inc's TCR fell 10.4 from 12.0 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.0 · 2020=16.1 · 2021=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624310 · Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 261% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #51/59
  • PHOTO Pilot-Catskill SE AD
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~362 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pilot-Catskill SE AD (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Star Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Star Inc averages 9.9 TCR (261% of the Vocational rehabilitation agencies BLS benchmark).

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

New Star Inc TCR series: 2016=12 · 2020=16.1 · 2021=1.7 · BLS 3.8

Where New Star Inc falls in its industry

1,455 Vocational rehabilitation agen establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 59 Vocational rehabilitation agen employers in Illinois.

New Star Inc (362 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate New Star Inc
New Star Inc (362 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

New Star Inc has more employees than the Vocational rehabilitation agencies median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2021 1.7 1.7 3 0 0
2020 16.1 16.1 3 0 0
2016 12.0 6.7 15 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624310 · IL · Chicago Heights

1,455 Vocational rehabilitation agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, 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 Pilot-Catskill SE AD 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABILITY COUNTS INC 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pipe Conx-enclave 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forest Grove Store 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bulley & Andrews 362 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3400 362 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chestnut Health Systems 362 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reynolds Consumer Products Wheeling Plant 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Trimark SS Kemp Brysco 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Council Bluffs Goodwill Retail Store 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Corner Market #9028 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Border Valley Trading, LTD. 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harbor Wholesale Grocery - WA 362 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside Walter Reed Hospital 362 FTE
NAT-SIZE HCI 362 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edgewell Personal Care 362 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: 2021, 2020, 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.