Academies, college or university · Illinois

University of Illinois Springfield

Springfield, IL · ~1,282 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

University of Illinois Springfield runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade C.

University of Illinois Springfield: 1.2 TCR = 83% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

University of Illinois Springfield safety composite

University of Illinois Springfield scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Rising injury rate

University of Illinois Springfield: 0.9 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2020

University of Illinois Springfield's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.9 in 2017 to 1.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Springfield, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 1.2 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #8/17
  • PHOTO Icahn School of Medi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~1,282 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (0.0 TCR gap)

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University of Illinois Springfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows University of Illinois Springfield averages 1.2 TCR (83% 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 Springfield TCR series: 2017=0.9 · 2018=0.7 · 2020=1.9 · BLS 1.4

Where University of Illinois Springfield falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #8 safest of 17 Academies, college or universi employers in Illinois.

University of Illinois Springfield (1,282 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate University of Illinois Springfield
University of Illinois Springfield (1,282 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

University of Illinois Springfield 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
2020 1.9 0.6 16 0 0
2018 0.7 0.2 6 0 0
2017 0.9 0.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · IL · Springfield

347 Academies, college or university 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 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Josephs College of Nursing 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln University 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universidad Ana G. Mendez - Santa Isabel 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moody Bible Institute 1,281 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roundlake R&D 1,286 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kane County 1,278 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harlem School District 122 1,287 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 Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 454 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1584 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR BKF 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE St Vincent Hospital Hot Springs 1,282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital 1,282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horseshoe Southern Indiana Hotel and Casino 1,282 FTE
NAT-SIZE 826 - EFC4 DeSoto, TX 1,282 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: 2020, 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.