Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Illinois

Village of South Elgin - Police Department

South Elgin, IL · ~41 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Village of South Elgin - Police Department runs at 399% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Village of South Elgin - Police Department: 12.8 TCR = 399% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Village of South Elgin - Police Department safety composite

Village of South Elgin - Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

TCR Δ

−13.8

2021→2024

Village of South Elgin - Police Department injury rate improved

Village of South Elgin - Police Department's TCR fell 13.8 from 19.0 in 2021 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=19.0 · 2022=21.8 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · South Elgin, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 399% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #87/110
  • PHOTO Vancouver Police Dep…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vancouver Police Dept West (0.0 TCR gap)

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Village of South Elgin - Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Village of South Elgin - Police Department averages 12.8 TCR (399% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Village of South Elgin - Police Department TCR series: 2021=19 · 2022=21.8 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Village of South Elgin - Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #87 safest of 110 Police departments (except Ame employers in Illinois.

Village of South Elgin - Police Department (41 employees, TCR 12.8) 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 Village of South Elgin - Police Department
Village of South Elgin - Police Department (41 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Village of South Elgin - Police Department has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi 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
2024 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2023 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2022 21.8 13.6 5 3 0
2021 19.0 5.4 5 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IL · South Elgin

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 45 employers in South Elgin, 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 Vancouver Police Dept West 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterling Police Department 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Geneva Police Department 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. - Champaign Research - CMI1 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1987-Jerseyville, IL 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt. Carmel Public Utility Co. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hoffer Plastics 389 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1896 - South Elgin 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Custom Aluminum Products Inc 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tower Hill Healthcare Center 204 FTE
NAT-TCR Frankie's Fun Park of Greenville, LLC 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Faulhaber Micromo LLC 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Worth Studio 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 8010126 Ryder Indianapolis 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unitherm Columbia 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Torrington CT 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Asheville Transportation Services 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE DFW Electric Group, LLC. 41 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, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.