Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Illinois

UChicago Medicine

Chicago, IL · ~10,189 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UChicago Medicine runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade B.

UChicago Medicine: 5.4 TCR = 72% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UChicago Medicine safety composite

UChicago Medicine scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.4

2021→2023

UChicago Medicine injury rate improved

UChicago Medicine's TCR fell 1.4 from 6.1 in 2021 to 4.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.1 · 2023=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 5.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #138/300
  • PHOTO Scotland Memorial Ho…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 888 inj
  • SIZE ~10,189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Scotland Memorial Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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UChicago Medicine in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UChicago Medicine averages 5.4 TCR (72% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

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

UChicago Medicine TCR series: 2021=6.1 · 2023=4.7 · BLS 7.5

Where UChicago Medicine falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #138 safest of 300 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Illinois.

UChicago Medicine (10,189 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05,00010,00015,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate UChicago Medicine
UChicago Medicine (10,189 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

UChicago Medicine has more employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 4.7 2.1 414 3 0
2021 6.1 3.1 474 25 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IL · Chicago

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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 Scotland Memorial Hospital 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sonoma Valley Hospital 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AdventHealth Ottawa 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE ORD ORD 10,177 FTE
STATE-SIZE The University of Chicago 11,617 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORD - Airport United Airlines Offices 8,609 FTE
STATE-SIZE CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL 8,566 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 Chippewa Falls Distribution Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Holdrege 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trinity Hills of Knoxville Senior Living 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wagoner Hospital Authority DBA Wagoner Community Hospital 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 10,204 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cooper University Hospital 10,223 FTE
NAT-SIZE IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
NAT-SIZE NGSP-K477 10,135 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, 2021. 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.