Commercial building construction · Illinois

Novak Construction Company

Chicago, IL · ~115 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Novak Construction Company runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial building construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Novak Construction Company: 0.8 TCR = 27% of Commercial building construction BLS 2.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Novak Construction Company safety composite

Novak Construction Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Novak Construction Company: 0.0 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.94× in 2024

Novak Construction Company's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.0 in 2021 to 1.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 27% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #40/169
  • PHOTO Urban Atelier Group …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Urban Atelier Group Main Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Novak Construction Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Novak Construction Company averages 0.8 TCR (27% of the Commercial building construction BLS benchmark).

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

Novak Construction Company TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 2.9

Where Novak Construction Company falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 169 Commercial building constructi employers in Illinois.

Novak Construction Company (115 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Novak Construction Company
Novak Construction Company (115 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Novak Construction Company has more employees than the Commercial building construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2022 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · IL · Chicago

4,692 Commercial building construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Urban Atelier Group Main Office 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction Services Group 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parrish-McCall Constructors, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fisher Construction Group, Inc. 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MTH Industries 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Installation Professionals 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE EMCOR Services Team Mechanical 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bourbon Tile & Marble, Inc. 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Walker Engineering, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Duplainville Road Commingle Wi 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rug Doctor, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Songwon International Americas, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Raleigh 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sam Dong Ohio Inc. 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Select Specialty Hospital - Central Pennsylvania, L.P. (d/b/a Select Specialty Hospital - Camp Hill) 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millwood, Inc. Corporate 115 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. 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.