Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Illinois

Sheriff's Office

Wheaton, IL · ~502 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheriff's Office runs at 222% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade F.

Sheriff's Office: 7.1 TCR = 222% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheriff's Office safety composite

Sheriff's Office scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−4.1

2017→2024

Sheriff's Office injury rate improved

Sheriff's Office's TCR fell 4.1 from 9.5 in 2017 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.5 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Wheaton, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 222% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #49/110
  • PHOTO Police Department
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 259 inj
  • SIZE ~502 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheriff's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheriff's Office averages 7.1 TCR (222% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2017=9.5 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 110 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Illinois.

Sheriff's Office (502 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheriff's Office
Sheriff's Office (502 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Sheriff's Office has more employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 5.4 1.6 24 0 0
2023 7.3 2.5 33 0 0
2022 7.7 2.9 34 0 0
2021 9.3 2.3 40 0 0
2020 5.4 1.4 26 0 0
2019 6.7 1.9 31 0 0
2018 5.5 3.0 25 0 0
2017 9.5 2.9 46 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IL · Wheaton

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) 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 Police Department 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Township of Franklin Police 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benton County Sheriff's Office 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheriff's Department 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE OSI Group - Ashland 502 FTE
STATE-SIZE DANVILLE IL (QUAKER) 501 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cookie Kingdom 501 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Foods 503 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marianjoy Rehabilitation Center 708 FTE
CITY-NEAR DuPage County Health Department 600 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3290 418 FTE
CITY-NEAR Care Center 376 FTE
NAT-TCR Doyle Sims & Sons Trucking Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Forest Plant 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR St Joseph Plant 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Watsonville Distribution Center 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amgen Inc. (So. San Francisco, CA) 502 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fibrebond 502 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Corr Inc 502 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loren Cook Company - Springfield 502 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.