Colleges, community · Illinois

Sauk Valley Community College

Dixon, IL · ~264 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sauk Valley Community College runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Colleges, community workplace, earning a grade A.

Sauk Valley Community College: 0.4 TCR = 26% of Colleges, community BLS 1.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sauk Valley Community College safety composite

Sauk Valley Community College scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2017→2024

Sauk Valley Community College injury rate improved

Sauk Valley Community College's TCR fell 0.6 from 0.6 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Dixon, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/34
  • PHOTO Mountainland Technic…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~264 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mountainland Technical College (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sauk Valley Community College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sauk Valley Community College averages 0.4 TCR (26% of the Colleges, community BLS benchmark).

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

Sauk Valley Community College TCR series: 2017=0.6 · 2018=0 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 1.4

Where Sauk Valley Community College falls in its industry

127 Colleges, community establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 34 Colleges, community employers in Illinois.

Sauk Valley Community College (264 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 Sauk Valley Community College
Sauk Valley Community College (264 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Sauk Valley Community College has fewer employees than the Colleges, community median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 0.5 0.5 0 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.6 1.1 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.6 0.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · IL · Dixon

127 Colleges, community employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 50 employers in Dixon, 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 Mountainland Technical College 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Mexico Military Institute 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartnell College East Campus 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Virginia Community College - CS 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glen Ellyn Reporting Center 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northbrook 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flinn Scientific 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE IL014 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raynor Garage Doors 541 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5399 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5399 327 FTE
NAT-TCR National Renewable Energy Corporation 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Beech Island - 246 Old Jackson Highway 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ms - Hp 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Asc - Ago 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10131 Chelsea 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA2 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Alverna Village 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2764 - Christiana 264 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, 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.