Building cleaning services, janitorial · Illinois

O'Hare Airport

Chicago, IL · ~344 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O'Hare Airport runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Building cleaning services, janitorial workplace, earning a grade D.

O'Hare Airport: 8.0 TCR = 177% of Building cleaning services, janitorial BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O'Hare Airport safety composite

O'Hare Airport scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

O'Hare Airport: 7.8 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2024

O'Hare Airport's TCR rose 3.4 from 7.8 in 2017 to 11.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561720 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 177% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #163/189
  • PHOTO 155378
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 91 inj
  • SIZE ~344 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 155378 (0.0 TCR gap)

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O'Hare Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O'Hare Airport averages 8.0 TCR (177% of the Building cleaning services, janitorial BLS benchmark).

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

O'Hare Airport TCR series: 2017=7.8 · 2018=4.3 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=11.2 · BLS 4.5

Where O'Hare Airport falls in its industry

4,064 Building cleaning services, ja establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #163 safest of 189 Building cleaning services, ja employers in Illinois.

O'Hare Airport (344 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate O'Hare Airport
O'Hare Airport (344 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2

O'Hare Airport has more employees than the Building cleaning services, janitorial median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 11.2 9.2 22 0 0
2023 8.6 5.7 20 1 0
2018 4.3 4.3 25 0 0
2017 7.8 7.8 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561720 · IL · Chicago

4,064 Building cleaning services, janitorial 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 155378 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8004 Jewish Home of Greater Harrisburg 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 493129 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rapid City Regional Hosp POM 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taylor Farms Artesian 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE Afton Chemical Corporation - Sauget, IL 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPI Mount Prospect 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10252 Lincoln Park 344 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 DFW 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Louis,MO - 469 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid Ice, LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Old Globe 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lumbermen's Inc. Byron Center 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 15076 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kent Companies, INC 344 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, 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.