Parks and recreation commission, government · Illinois

Parks & Lakes Department

Jacksonville, IL · ~103 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Parks & Lakes Department runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Parks and recreation commission, government workplace, earning a grade A.

Parks & Lakes Department: 0.5 TCR = 15% of Parks and recreation commission, government BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Parks & Lakes Department safety composite

Parks & Lakes Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

Parks & Lakes Department: 0.5 → 96.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 96.2 TCR · DART/TCR 200.31× in 2024

Parks & Lakes Department's TCR rose 95.7 from 0.5 in 2023 to 96.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 200.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 924120 · Jacksonville, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 15% of ind

  • DART 96.2 DART
  • RANK #7/63
  • PHOTO CONSTITUTION HALL - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CONSTITUTION HALL - EGLE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Parks & Lakes Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Parks & Lakes Department averages 0.5 TCR (15% of the Parks and recreation commission, government BLS benchmark).

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

Parks & Lakes Department TCR series: 2023=0.5 · 2024=96.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Parks & Lakes Department falls in its industry

413 Parks and recreation commissio establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 63 Parks and recreation commissio employers in Illinois.

Parks & Lakes Department (103 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Parks & Lakes Department
Parks & Lakes Department (103 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Parks & Lakes Department has more employees than the Parks and recreation commission, governm median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 96.2 96.2 1 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

924120 · IL · Jacksonville

413 Parks and recreation commission, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Jacksonville, 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 CONSTITUTION HALL - EGLE 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gymnastic Recreation Center 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Hedges Admin Building 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CONSTITUTION HALL - DNR 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maywood Tech Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bellwood Reporting Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, Braidwood Station 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Utility LLC 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Passavant Area Hospital 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jacksonville Memorial Hospital 666 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds Consumer Products- Jacksonville West Plant 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR RCP Jax West Plant 450 FTE
NAT-TCR HAMMETT EXCAVATION, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Allen Industries, LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR T.C. Smith Produce Farm 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American-Iowa Manufacturing, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Office 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerrity's Supermarkets, Wyoming 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwest Steel Casting Company 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plum Creek Environmental 103 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.