Rehabilitation Hospital · Illinois

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Chicago, IL · ~2,434 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Rehabilitation Hospital workplace, earning a grade C.

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab: 3.3 TCR = 87% of Rehabilitation Hospital BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab safety composite

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab: 2.2 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab's TCR rose 3.3 from 2.2 in 2019 to 5.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622310 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 87% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #9/32
  • PHOTO H4611 KH BAY AREA ST…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 294 inj
  • SIZE ~2,434 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: H4611 KH BAY AREA ST. PETERSBURG (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shirley Ryan AbilityLab averages 3.3 TCR (87% of the Rehabilitation Hospital BLS benchmark).

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

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=3.7 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Shirley Ryan AbilityLab falls in its industry

1,390 Rehabilitation Hospital establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 32 Rehabilitation Hospital employers in Illinois.

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (2,434 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (2,434 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab has more employees than the Rehabilitation Hospital median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 5.4 1.7 105 6 0
2022 3.7 2.3 59 9 0
2021 2.5 1.4 46 0 0
2020 2.6 1.9 45 22 0
2019 2.2 1.0 39 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622310 · IL · Chicago

1,390 Rehabilitation Hospital employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 H4611 KH BAY AREA ST. PETERSBURG 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regency North Central Ohio - Cleveland East 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR H4653 KH TARRANT COUNTY SOUTHWEST 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weldon Rehabilitation Hospital 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Federal Building Services, Inc. 2,440 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - IGQ1 2,441 FTE
STATE-SIZE College of DuPage 2,427 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decatur Facility 2,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Harlingen Tx - 841 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR W Seattle 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Residence at Boylston Place 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni Fort Worth Hotel 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE MDTWNJ21 2,433 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Williamsport Hospital 2,433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayo Clinic Florida (Hospital) 2,432 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MEM1 2,432 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, 2019. 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.