General public administration · Illinois

The City of Lake Forest

Lake Forest, IL · ~303 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The City of Lake Forest runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade F.

The City of Lake Forest: 7.7 TCR = 242% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The City of Lake Forest safety composite

The City of Lake Forest scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

The City of Lake Forest: 8.6 → 202.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 202.3 TCR · DART/TCR 26.13× in 2023

The City of Lake Forest's TCR rose 193.7 from 8.6 in 2017 to 202.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 26.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Lake Forest, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 242% of ind

  • DART 202.3 DART
  • RANK #134/213
  • PHOTO Los Angeles County R…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~303 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder County Clerk (0.0 TCR gap)

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The City of Lake Forest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The City of Lake Forest averages 7.7 TCR (242% of the General public administration BLS benchmark).

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

The City of Lake Forest TCR series: 2017=8.6 · 2018=6.9 · 2022=115.6 · 2023=202.3 · BLS 3.2

Where The City of Lake Forest falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #134 safest of 213 General public administration employers in Illinois.

The City of Lake Forest (303 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate The City of Lake Forest
The City of Lake Forest (303 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

The City of Lake Forest has more employees than the General public administration median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 202.3 202.3 13 1 0
2022 115.6 72.2 8 0 0
2018 6.9 1.6 14 8 0
2017 8.6 2.5 19 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · IL · Lake Forest

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 50 employers in Lake Forest, 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 Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder County Clerk 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roanoke County 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Chicago Ridge 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Chicago Dept of Fleet and Facility Management - 5219 S. Wentworth Ave. 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chicago Plant (Bruss) 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2081 - Broadview 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 328 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 253 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR US - Corporate : 0G01 2,455 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0G01 - CORP LAKE FOREST, IL 2,187 FTE
CITY-NEAR LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL 1,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0G11 - CORP LAKE FOREST, IL 1,044 FTE
NAT-TCR USM Store #501 (United) 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Invincible Boat 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR S&S Line Service 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Span Alaska - Fairbanks 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Airport Community Schools 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1002-Ucpmc-Armory B - Tradewinds 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Curtis Lumber Co. Inc. Ballston Spa 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Altoona 303 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.