Sewage treatment plants or facilities · Illinois

Obrien Water Reclamation Plant

Skokie, IL · ~190 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Obrien Water Reclamation Plant runs at 253% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sewage treatment plants or facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Obrien Water Reclamation Plant: 3.0 TCR = 253% of Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Obrien Water Reclamation Plant safety composite

Obrien Water Reclamation Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Obrien Water Reclamation Plant: 2.4 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2019

Obrien Water Reclamation Plant's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.4 in 2018 to 3.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221320 · Skokie, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 3.0 · 253% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #16/48
  • PHOTO Renewable Energy Fac…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~190 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Renewable Energy Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Obrien Water Reclamation Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Obrien Water Reclamation Plant averages 3.0 TCR (253% of the Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Obrien Water Reclamation Plant TCR series: 2018=2.4 · 2019=3.6 · BLS 1.2

Where Obrien Water Reclamation Plant falls in its industry

400 Sewage treatment plants or fac establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 48 Sewage treatment plants or fac employers in Illinois.

Obrien Water Reclamation Plant (190 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Obrien Water Reclamation Plant
Obrien Water Reclamation Plant (190 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Obrien Water Reclamation Plant has more employees than the Sewage treatment plants or facilities median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2019 3.6 2.4 6 0 0
2018 2.4 1.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221320 · IL · Skokie

400 Sewage treatment plants or facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 117 employers in Skokie, 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 Renewable Energy Facility 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LASAN - Los Angeles - Glendale Water Reclamation Plant 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Environmental Systems Service, Ltd. (Culpeper, VA) 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danville Sanitary District 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Landmarc, LLC 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herff Jones Cap and Gowns Champaign 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herff Jones - Champaign 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE ArcelorMittal Corporate - Research & Development 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Corporation 1,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Skokie Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Mogul 1,123 FTE
CITY-NEAR SKOKIE HOSPITAL 992 FTE
NAT-TCR Hayfield Public Schools 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Imperial Manufacturing 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hutchinson Sealing Systems, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dinuba District Office 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southroads 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Catamount Constructors, Inc. 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE E.M. Tharp 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zoological Society of Pittsburgh DBA Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium 190 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: 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.