Police and fire departments, combined · Illinois

The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building

Lake Forest, IL · ~81 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building runs at 549% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police and fire departments, combined workplace, earning a grade F.

The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building: 17.6 TCR = 549% of Police and fire departments, combined BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building safety composite

The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building: 17.6 → 839.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 839.9 TCR · DART/TCR 29.86× in 2023

The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building's TCR rose 822.3 from 17.6 in 2019 to 839.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 29.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Lake Forest, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 549% of ind

  • DART 524.9 DART
  • RANK #97/110
  • PHOTO Westminster Police D…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Westminster Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building 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 Public Safety Building averages 17.6 TCR (549% of the Police and fire departments, combined BLS benchmark).

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

The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building TCR series: 2019=17.6 · 2023=839.9 · BLS 3.2

Where The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building falls in its industry

716 Police and fire departments, c establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #97 safest of 110 Police and fire departments, c employers in Illinois.

The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building (81 employees, TCR 17.6) 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 The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building
The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building (81 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building has fewer employees than the Police and fire departments, combined median and a higher 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
2023 839.9 524.9 7 1 0
2019 17.6 10.6 14 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IL · Lake Forest

716 Police and fire departments, combined 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 Westminster Police Department 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Burbank - Police - Safety Members 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawaii Police Department 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred Intl Inc. Utica, IL 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edwards Power Station 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE 75E - Western S - IL Electric Ops 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western S - IL Electric Ops 81 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 054547-Lax-Pico Heights Sta 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HG220 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Del Conte's Landscaping, Inc 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen Health Care Center 17.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bandimere Auto Performance Center Inc. 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1619-Mntc-Mpls - Portland Building 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Etiwanda 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE RK-117-Crossville ( RK-117 ) 81 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.