Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway · Illinois

Public Works Department

Sterling, IL · ~18 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works Department runs at 385% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works Department: 10.8 TCR = 385% of Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works Department safety composite

Public Works Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.8

2017→2024

Public Works Department injury rate improved

Public Works Department's TCR fell 11.8 from 18.1 in 2017 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 36.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=18.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=36.9 · 2020=6.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Sterling, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 385% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #184/266
  • PHOTO York
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: York (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works Department averages 10.8 TCR (385% of the Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works Department TCR series: 2017=18.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=36.9 · 2020=6 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Public Works Department falls in its industry

4,078 Repair, highway, road, street, establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #184 safest of 266 Repair, highway, road, street, employers in Illinois.

Public Works Department (18 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works Department
Public Works Department (18 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Public Works Department has fewer employees than the Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 6.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 6.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 6.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2019 36.9 24.6 6 0 0
2018 6.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 18.1 6.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Sterling

4,078 Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 72 employers in Sterling, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR York 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manistee County Road Commission 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Fairview Heights 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CCSF, PW, Bureau of Street & Sewer Repair 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lone Hollow, LLC. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincoln 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avangrid Renewables - Top of Iowa II.Barton.Winnebego 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - GS Meter Shop and Engr 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR HALO Branded Solutions, Inc. 2,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR STIL 1,839 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wahl Clipper Corporation 1,260 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7024 910 FTE
NAT-TCR FDC-Glenns Ferry 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Haviland 2 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Keefe Group Fontana 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CentraCare Monticello 10.8 TCR

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.