Day care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities · Illinois

Sparc

Springfield, IL · ~234 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Sparc runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Day care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities workplace, earning a grade C.

Sparc: 3.8 TCR = 100% of Day care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sparc safety composite

Sparc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.14 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.6

2020→2024

Sparc injury rate improved

Sparc's TCR fell 5.6 from 6.4 in 2020 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.4 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624120 · Springfield, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 100% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #37/58
  • PHOTO Napa Valley PSI, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Napa Valley PSI, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sparc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sparc averages 3.8 TCR (100% of the Day care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities BLS benchmark).

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

Sparc TCR series: 2020=6.4 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Sparc falls in its industry

1,320 Day care centers for disabled establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 58 Day care centers for disabled employers in Illinois.

Sparc (234 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sparc
Sparc (234 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Sparc has more employees than the Day care centers for disabled persons, t median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 0.8 0.1 18 0 0
2023 4.8 3.0 8 0 0
2022 3.1 0.5 38 0 0
2020 6.4 1.6 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624120 · IL · Springfield

1,320 Day care centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 311 employers in Springfield, 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 Napa Valley PSI, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mosaic-Living Innovations-Newport 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Complete Senior Care 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AHSSO 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE D & R 1 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE HERMAN SEEKAMP DBA CLYDES DELICIOUS DONUTS 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cabot Microelectronics Corporation - 870 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHERRY VALLEY IL - 3042 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center 4,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Memorial Hospital 3,837 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Clinic, LLP 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. John's Hospital 2,696 FTE
NAT-TCR Morgan Concrete Company - Buford Plant 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rose Glen Village 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Four Oaks 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield Engineering Co. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ronpak, Inc. California 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE L.C. Whitford Co., Inc. 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE TrellisWare Technologies, Inc. 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE SOLO 234 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.