Elementary schools · Illinois

Northbrook School District 28

Northbrook, IL · ~414 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northbrook School District 28 runs at 950% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Northbrook School District 28: 13.3 TCR = 950% of Elementary schools BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northbrook School District 28 safety composite

Northbrook School District 28 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Northbrook School District 28: 6.5 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 21.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.16× in 2023

Northbrook School District 28's TCR rose 7.3 from 6.5 in 2020 to 13.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 21.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.3 · 950% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #303/312
  • PHOTO Transportation - GR
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 103 inj
  • SIZE ~414 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transportation - GR (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northbrook School District 28 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northbrook School District 28 averages 13.3 TCR (950% of the Elementary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Northbrook School District 28 TCR series: 2020=6.5 · 2021=21.7 · 2022=11.2 · 2023=13.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Northbrook School District 28 falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary schools establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #303 safest of 312 Elementary schools employers in Illinois.

Northbrook School District 28 (414 employees, TCR 13.3) 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 Northbrook School District 28
Northbrook School District 28 (414 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Northbrook School District 28 has more employees than the Elementary schools median and a higher 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
2023 13.8 2.2 38 0 0
2022 11.2 1.1 30 0 0
2021 21.7 1.0 22 0 0
2020 6.5 0.0 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · Northbrook

3,374 Elementary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 122 employers in Northbrook, 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 Transportation - GR 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bucks Hill Pre K at the Annex 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Public Schools ISD#492-Austin Public Schools ISD #492 - Oakland Educational Center 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oak View Elementary 13.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Snak King - Freeport 414 FTE
STATE-SIZE The M&R Companies 414 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillside 1 414 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodfield 259 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas Pharma US 1,228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas Pharma Global Development 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astellas US LLC 896 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILNOR - NORTHBROOK 780 FTE
NAT-TCR Copper State Plastering Inc 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR LSI - SkyWays 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern States Midlothian Service 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Grand Rapids 13.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf Gettysburg PA 414 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpha Systems 414 FTE
NAT-SIZE Park Place Office Buildings 414 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rise 414 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.