Public Streets & Utilities · Illinois

Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept.

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~74 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.6
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. runs at 1298% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Public Streets & Utilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept.: 15.6 TCR = 1298% of Public Streets & Utilities BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. safety composite

Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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- Water & Sewer Dept.: 15.0 → 16.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2018

Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept.'s TCR rose 1.1 from 15.0 in 2017 to 16.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Elk Grove Village, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.6 · 1298% of ind

  • DART 16.1 DART
  • RANK #57/60
  • PHOTO Public Utilities, Se…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants (0.1 TCR gap)

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Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. averages 15.6 TCR (1298% of the Public Streets & Utilities BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. TCR series: 2017=15 · 2018=16.1 · BLS 1.2

Where Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. falls in its industry

727 Public Streets & Utilities establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 60 Public Streets & Utilities employers in Illinois.

Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. (74 employees, TCR 15.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept.
Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. (74 employees, TCR 15.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. has more employees than the Public Streets & Utilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2018 16.1 16.1 9 0 0
2017 15.0 15.0 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · IL · Elk Grove Village

727 Public Streets & Utilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, 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 Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Unit Irrigation District 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gurnee Public Works Department 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nob Hill Water Association 15.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience LLC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Normandy Construction Co. Inc 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE 105652 - Cass County Solar 150 MW AC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Chicago - CDOT, Bridges 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR creative werks, LLC 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL008 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR Luzia-Site 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Thor Motor Coach/Elkhart lamination 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Glacier Landscape, Inc. 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Stony Brook 15.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wilmington BROSCO 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Port City Custom Plastics, Mirror Image Tool and Port City Group Corporate 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Health - High Point 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. D. Mushrooms Inc 74 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: 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.