Academies, college or university · Illinois

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~13,092 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

University of Illinois at Chicago runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade C.

University of Illinois at Chicago: 1.5 TCR = 105% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

University of Illinois at Chicago safety composite

University of Illinois at Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 1% 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%).

University of Illinois at Chicago held a steady TCR band

University of Illinois at Chicago's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.6 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.6 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 1.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #11/17
  • PHOTO 482 SOUTHEASTERN ILL…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 698 inj
  • SIZE ~13,092 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 482 SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE (0.0 TCR gap)

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University of Illinois at Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows University of Illinois at Chicago averages 1.5 TCR (105% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

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

University of Illinois at Chicago TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=1.4 · BLS 1.4

Where University of Illinois at Chicago falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 17 Academies, college or universi employers in Illinois.

University of Illinois at Chicago (13,092 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05,00010,00015,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago (13,092 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

University of Illinois at Chicago has more employees than the Academies, college or university median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2022 1.4 1.0 89 38 0
2021 1.1 0.8 100 5 0
2020 1.1 0.9 63 66 1
2019 1.7 1.1 150 5 0
2018 1.9 1.1 162 2 1
2017 1.6 1.0 134 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · IL · Chicago

347 Academies, college or university 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 482 SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MINNESOTA WEST COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linfield College 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dallas Baptist University 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwestern University 13,993 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rush University Medical Center 12,172 FTE
STATE-SIZE The University of Chicago 11,617 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR UChicago Medicine 10,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR ORD ORD 10,177 FTE
NAT-TCR STTC Seaford 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1178 Scottsdale 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt & Whitney Engine Services, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Jsu - Marketplace 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boston Children's Hospital 13,082 FTE
NAT-SIZE EWR - Airport United Airlines Offices 13,015 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6017-USA United States - Wah - Ca 13,009 FTE
NAT-SIZE University of Pittsburgh-Oakland 13,208 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.