General public administration · Illinois

Village of Buffalo Grove

Buffalo Grove, IL · ~258 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Village of Buffalo Grove runs at 281% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade F.

Village of Buffalo Grove: 9.0 TCR = 281% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Village of Buffalo Grove safety composite

Village of Buffalo Grove scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Village of Buffalo Grove: 6.6 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 21.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2024

Village of Buffalo Grove's TCR rose 0.6 from 6.6 in 2018 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 21.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Buffalo Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 281% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #155/213
  • PHOTO City of Norton Shores
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 174 inj
  • SIZE ~258 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Norton Shores (0.0 TCR gap)

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Village of Buffalo Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Village of Buffalo Grove averages 9.0 TCR (281% of the General public administration BLS benchmark).

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

Village of Buffalo Grove TCR series: 2018=6.6 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=21.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=11.6 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Village of Buffalo Grove falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #155 safest of 213 General public administration employers in Illinois.

Village of Buffalo Grove (258 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Village of Buffalo Grove
Village of Buffalo Grove (258 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Village of Buffalo Grove 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
2024 7.2 2.6 21 1 0
2022 11.6 8.4 29 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 40 0 0
2020 21.8 7.4 54 2 0
2019 6.8 0.8 16 0 0
2018 6.6 1.2 14 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · IL · Buffalo Grove

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Buffalo Grove, 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 City of Norton Shores 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Harvard 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Villa Park 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2962-00001700 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elk Grove IL Large 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Ethanol 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stepan Company Northbrook 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydro - Rosemont HQ 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Building Services, Inc. 2,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex - Buffalo Grove 1,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR BT Buffalo Grove 760 FTE
NAT-TCR Bongards Creameries Perham 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Central Correctional Facility 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1752 Swn2 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Impact Fab 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bay Corrugated Container Inc 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Charles Hotel 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berry Global - Monroe, LA 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE IA - Ottumwa - 14955 Truman St - The American Bottling Company 258 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: 2024, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.