Public defenders' offices · Illinois

Public Defender's Office

Wheaton, IL · ~47 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Defender's Office runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Public defenders' offices workplace, earning a grade C.

Public Defender's Office: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Public defenders' offices BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Defender's Office safety composite

Public Defender's Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

Public Defender's Office held a steady TCR band

Public Defender's Office's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.0 TCR.

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922130 · Wheaton, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P100
  • PHOTO Law Office of the Pu…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Law Office of the Public Defender (0.1 TCR gap)

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Public Defender's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Defender's Office averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Public defenders' offices BLS benchmark).

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

Public Defender's Office TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Defender's Office falls in its industry

92 Public defenders' offices establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Public Defender's Office (47 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Defender's Office
Public Defender's Office (47 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Public Defender's Office has fewer employees than the Public defenders' offices median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922130 · IL · Wheaton

92 Public defenders' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 67 employers in Wheaton, 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 Law Office of the Public Defender 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR King County Prosecuting Attorney 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR State's Attorney's Office 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR County Attorney's Office 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1987-Jerseyville, IL (Monsanto Co.) 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-Mfg 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Power, Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Decatur 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marianjoy Rehabilitation Center 708 FTE
CITY-NEAR DuPage County Health Department 600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheriff's Office 502 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3290 418 FTE
NAT-TCR Cedar Bay Entertainment LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Health 7000 and 7200 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR One Federal Street 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Fremont - Community Support Includes Recreation and Human Services 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Portland 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE McAllen 190 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Egan Plumbing Inc 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied Waste Services of Imperial 47 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.