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

Police Department

West Chicago, IL · ~48 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Police Department: 6.5 TCR = 204% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police Department safety composite

Police Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Police Department: 5.0 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2021

Police Department's TCR rose 0.4 from 5.0 in 2017 to 5.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · West Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 204% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #44/110
  • PHOTO Village of Deerfield…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Village of Deerfield - 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 6.5 TCR (204% 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=5 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=7 · 2021=5.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #44 safest of 110 Police departments (except Ame employers in Illinois.

Police Department (48 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 (48 employees, TCR 6.5) 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
2021 5.4 1.8 3 0 0
2020 7.0 3.5 4 0 0
2019 8.4 5.1 3 2 0
2018 6.8 0.0 1 3 0
2017 5.0 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IL · West Chicago

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 · 123 employers in West 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 Village of Deerfield - Police 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR COURTHOUSE 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milwaukee PDC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR District 1 (Police) 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Marengo - 04WW 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kirie Water Reclamation Plant 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Focus Development, Inc. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar Multi-Family - Central (Chicago) 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR La Grande Post Acute Rehab 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LW Engineering Plant 1 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LW Engineering Plant 2 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MSP-SPF 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jay Dee Obayashi JV 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roto Rooter Mobile 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wallace Brothers Disposal 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drury Inn & Suites - Orlando 48 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.