Waste management program administration · Illinois

Public Works Agency

Evanston, IL · ~151 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works Agency runs at 416% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste management program administration workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works Agency: 13.3 TCR = 416% of Waste management program administration BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works Agency safety composite

Public Works Agency scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Public Works Agency: 17.1 → 18.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2024

Public Works Agency's TCR rose 1.4 from 17.1 in 2018 to 18.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 924110 · Evanston, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.3 · 416% of ind

  • DART 17.0 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Siskiyou County Air …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 89 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Siskiyou County Air Pollution - Ag (0.2 TCR gap)

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Public Works Agency in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works Agency averages 13.3 TCR (416% of the Waste management program administration BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works Agency TCR series: 2018=17.1 · 2020=9.1 · 2021=12.1 · 2022=9.7 · 2024=18.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Works Agency falls in its industry

131 Waste management program admin establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 8 Waste management program admin employers in Illinois.

Public Works Agency (151 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works Agency
Public Works Agency (151 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Public Works Agency has more employees than the Waste management program administration median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 18.5 17.0 25 0 0
2022 9.7 9.0 13 0 0
2021 12.1 10.6 15 1 0
2020 9.1 8.4 12 0 0
2018 17.1 14.9 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

924110 · IL · Evanston

131 Waste management program administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in Evanston, 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 Siskiyou County Air Pollution - Ag 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iredell County Solid Waste Facility 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utilities and Environemtal Services 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Electric Ops 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sound Seal DBA Catalyst Acoustics 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Levy Company 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE U.S. Waterproofing 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern University 13,993 FTE
CITY-NEAR EVANSTON HOSPITAL 3,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITY OF EVANSTON 1,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR Citywide 1,020 FTE
NAT-TCR S03199 - Feather River Disposal, Inc 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakefield Veterinary Group - 135 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Redwood Empire Sawmill 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Aladdins Carpet Cleaning Inc 13.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brammer Bio Lexington 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Farm Packing 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE JFFFI-Merced 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ocean Beach Hospital 151 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.