Mental health facilities, residential · Illinois

Northern Illinois Academy

Aurora, IL · ~254 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Illinois Academy runs at 429% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mental health facilities, residential workplace, earning a grade F.

Northern Illinois Academy: 16.3 TCR = 429% of Mental health facilities, residential BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Illinois Academy safety composite

Northern Illinois Academy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.1

2018→2020

Northern Illinois Academy injury rate improved

Northern Illinois Academy's TCR fell 10.1 from 21.9 in 2018 to 11.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 21.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=21.9 · 2019=15.1 · 2020=11.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623220 · Aurora, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.3 · 429% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #39/45
  • PHOTO Astor Services for C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 109 inj
  • SIZE ~254 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Astor Services for Children & Families- Residential (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Illinois Academy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Illinois Academy averages 16.3 TCR (429% of the Mental health facilities, residential BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Illinois Academy TCR series: 2018=21.9 · 2019=15.1 · 2020=11.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Northern Illinois Academy falls in its industry

1,165 Mental health facilities, resi establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 45 Mental health facilities, resi employers in Illinois.

Northern Illinois Academy (254 employees, TCR 16.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern Illinois Academy
Northern Illinois Academy (254 employees, TCR 16.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Northern Illinois Academy has more employees than the Mental health facilities, residential median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2020 11.8 6.1 21 10 0
2019 15.1 2.9 37 0 0
2018 21.9 8.2 51 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623220 · IL · Aurora

1,165 Mental health facilities, residential employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 325 employers in Aurora, 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 Astor Services for Children & Families- Residential 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bayside Terrace 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foundations for Living 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Day Program 4 16.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE BT Mount Prospect 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE KONE Center - SBC 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solo Cup Company Urbana 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Aluminum Products Inc 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indian Prairie School District 204 3,309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Factor Aurora 2,167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rush Copley Medical Center, Inc. 2,163 FTE
CITY-NEAR ANDY FRAIN SERVICES INC 2,100 FTE
NAT-TCR Wingate Apartments 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JED Pool Tools, Inc. 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Trego/Dugan Aviation, Inc Sfo 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Colma 16.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Monroe Hospital 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE US042: Los Angeles 434 - SG 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Broken Arrow Communications 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carbel, LLC 254 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: 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.