Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Illinois

Police Department

Palos Heights, IL · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade B.

Police Department: 1.9 TCR = 59% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police Department safety composite

Police Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Police Department held a steady TCR band

Police Department's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Palos Heights, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/110
  • PHOTO police
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: police (0.0 TCR gap)

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Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Police Department averages 1.9 TCR (59% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Police Department TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 110 Police departments (except Ame employers in Illinois.

Police Department (51 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Police Department
Police Department (51 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Police Department has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.7 2.8 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IL · Palos Heights

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 22 employers in Palos Heights, 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 police 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northville Forensic Laboratory 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Public Safety (5) 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Savannah River 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Larch Farm 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDG 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prince Minerals LLC - QUI 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Quincy 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palos Community Hospital 2,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Providence Life Services 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manor Care Health Services - Palos Heights East 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parks and Recreation 258 FTE
NAT-TCR Jackson - 054 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bland - 171 Industry Drive 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Memorial Medical Ctr - East Tx 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Wells Fargo Chandler 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mixing Warehouse/Lincolnton - 931 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 002/Trevecca Nazarene University 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenwal Pickling 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Somerset #751 51 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, 2017. 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.