Academies, college or university · Illinois

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL · ~13,993 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwestern University runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade A.

Northwestern University: 0.5 TCR = 34% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwestern University safety composite

Northwestern University scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Northwestern University held a steady TCR band

Northwestern University's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.7 in 2017 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.7 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Evanston, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 34% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #1/17
  • PHOTO F3 Marion Campus
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 393 inj
  • SIZE ~13,993 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: F3 Marion Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwestern University in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwestern University averages 0.5 TCR (34% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

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

Northwestern University TCR series: 2017=0.7 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 1.4

Where Northwestern University falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 17 Academies, college or universi employers in Illinois.

Northwestern University (13,993 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05,00010,00015,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Northwestern University
Northwestern University (13,993 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Northwestern University has more employees than the Academies, college or university median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2024 0.4 0.2 51 2 0
2023 0.5 0.4 62 3 0
2022 0.8 0.3 73 18 0
2021 0.7 0.2 74 5 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.6 0.3 68 3 0
2017 0.7 0.3 65 11 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · IL · Evanston

347 Academies, college or university employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in Evanston, 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 F3 Marion Campus 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hobart and William Smith Colleges 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwest Minnesota State University 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Virginia Commonwealth University 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
STATE-SIZE University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rush University Medical Center 12,172 FTE
STATE-SIZE The University of Chicago 11,617 FTE
CITY-NEAR EVANSTON HOSPITAL 3,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITY OF EVANSTON 1,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR Citywide 1,020 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Francis Hospital 899 FTE
NAT-TCR The Shelly Company - Southern Division Construction and Operations 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 104768 - GPA - CB1 Realignment 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerson Professional Tools MFG LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Raritan-Millstone/Canal Road Water Treatment Plant 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 13,900 FTE
NAT-SIZE FCA US Headquarters and Technology Center 14,088 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lawnwood Regional Medical Center 14,230 FTE
NAT-SIZE University of Connecticut - Storrs 13,590 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.