Intellectual and developmental disability facilities (e.g., homes, hospitals, intermediate care facilities), res · Illinois

Walter Lawson Children's Home

Loves Park, IL · ~138 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walter Lawson Children's Home runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Intellectual and developmental disability facilities (e.g., homes, hospitals, intermediate care facilities), res workplace, earning a grade F.

Walter Lawson Children's Home: 9.6 TCR = 252% of Intellectual and developmental disability facilities (e.g., homes, hospitals, intermediate care facilities), res BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walter Lawson Children's Home safety composite

Walter Lawson Children's Home scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.4

2019→2021

Walter Lawson Children's Home injury rate improved

Walter Lawson Children's Home's TCR fell 0.4 from 9.8 in 2019 to 9.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.8 · 2021=9.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623210 · Loves Park, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 252% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #70/84
  • PHOTO Lifestyle Support Se…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lifestyle Support Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walter Lawson Children's Home in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walter Lawson Children's Home averages 9.6 TCR (252% of the Intellectual and developmental disability facilities (e.g., homes, hospitals, intermediate care facilities), res BLS benchmark).

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

Walter Lawson Children's Home TCR series: 2019=9.8 · 2021=9.3 · BLS 3.8

Where Walter Lawson Children's Home falls in its industry

2,261 Intellectual and developmental establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 84 Intellectual and developmental employers in Illinois.

Walter Lawson Children's Home (138 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Walter Lawson Children's Home
Walter Lawson Children's Home (138 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Walter Lawson Children's Home has more employees than the Intellectual and developmental disabilit median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2021 9.3 4.7 10 0 0
2019 9.8 1.8 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · IL · Loves Park

2,261 Intellectual and developmental disability facilities (e.g., homes, hospitals, intermediate care facilities), res employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 59 employers in Loves Park, 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 Lifestyle Support Services, Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ST. JOHN'S VILLA 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAI WELD SLS 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Autism Learning Partners Valencia 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wood Dale 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jendersee, Inc. 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elk Grove IL (Small) 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC - Cornell Avenue Facility 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Loves Park Campus 1,186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rock Cut Campus 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR Danfoss LLC 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mondelez International-Rockford Plant 405 FTE
NAT-TCR Norfolk Academy 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakepointe Senior Care and Rehab Center 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR All In One/Moore Insulation #325 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MITAGS 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE LAX Los Angeles - 1100 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wise Alloys, LLC - Element 13 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE KIK Custom Products 138 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: 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.