State education departments · Illinois

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Carbondale, IL · ~6,287 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Illinois University Carbondale runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical State education departments workplace, earning a grade B.

Southern Illinois University Carbondale: 2.1 TCR = 64% of State education departments BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Illinois University Carbondale safety composite

Southern Illinois University Carbondale scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Southern Illinois University Carbondale held a steady TCR band

Southern Illinois University Carbondale's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.1 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.1 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 923110 · Carbondale, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 64% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Head Start Champaign
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 132 inj
  • SIZE ~6,287 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Head Start Champaign (0.1 TCR gap)

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Illinois University Carbondale averages 2.1 TCR (64% of the State education departments BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Illinois University Carbondale TCR series: 2022=2.1 · 2023=2 · BLS 3.2

Where Southern Illinois University Carbondale falls in its industry

41 State education departments establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

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 4 State education departments employers in Illinois.

Southern Illinois University Carbondale (6,287 employees, TCR 2.1) among 24 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 188 employees and a TCR of 2.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 25 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (6,287 employees, TCR 2.1) among 24 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 188 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Southern Illinois University Carbondale has more employees than the State education departments median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2023 2.0 0.1 67 0 0
2022 2.1 0.2 65 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

923110 · IL · Carbondale

41 State education departments employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 67 employers in Carbondale, 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 Head Start Champaign 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR High Desert Education Services 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Oregon University 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clark Board of Education 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Loyola University Hospital 6,433 FTE
STATE-SIZE XLT Management Services, Inc. 6,590 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwestern Memorial Hospital 6,604 FTE
STATE-SIZE MacNeal Hospital 5,900 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital of Carbondale 1,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carbondale 824 FTE
CITY-NEAR System Office 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR 196 313 FTE
NAT-TCR America's Thrift Store #24 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Methods Machine Tools, Inc - Michigan 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Riley Construction Company, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sul4R-Plus LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Batesville Processing 6,286 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville Jefferson Co Metro Gov't 6,303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florence 6,258 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: 2023, 2022. 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.