Community colleges · Illinois

Waubonsee Community College

Sugar Grove, IL · ~1,107 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waubonsee Community College runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Community colleges workplace, earning a grade B.

Waubonsee Community College: 1.1 TCR = 79% of Community colleges BLS 1.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waubonsee Community College safety composite

Waubonsee Community College scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2017→2024

Waubonsee Community College injury rate improved

Waubonsee Community College's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.5 in 2017 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.5 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Sugar Grove, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 1.1 · 79% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #14/34
  • PHOTO Pine Technical and C…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~1,107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pine Technical and Community College (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waubonsee Community College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waubonsee Community College averages 1.1 TCR (79% of the Community colleges BLS benchmark).

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

Waubonsee Community College TCR series: 2017=1.5 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=1 · BLS 1.4

Where Waubonsee Community College falls in its industry

127 Community colleges establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 34 Community colleges employers in Illinois.

Waubonsee Community College (1,107 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Waubonsee Community College
Waubonsee Community College (1,107 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Waubonsee Community College has more employees than the Community colleges median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 1.0 0.4 4 1 0
2023 0.6 0.0 3 0 0
2022 0.8 0.2 4 0 0
2021 0.8 0.4 4 0 0
2020 1.3 0.7 5 1 0
2019 1.8 0.6 9 0 0
2018 0.9 0.8 5 0 0
2017 1.5 0.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · IL · Sugar Grove

127 Community colleges employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 20 employers in Sugar 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 Pine Technical and Community College 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota State Community & Technical College- Fergus Falls 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MinnState - Northland Community and Technical College Thief River Falls 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Hennepin Community College 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE NAI-0032-0032-06651 FAC-06651-MELROSE PARK-IL 1,106 FTE
STATE-SIZE WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE #516 1,108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trinity Services, Inc. 1,108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - KRFD 1,105 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-03374 FAC-03374-SUGAR GROVE-IL 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03374 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003374 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scot Industries - Sugar Grove 63 FTE
NAT-TCR H&R Mfg and Supply Inc 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR O.L. Thompson Construction 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gayton & Sons, Inc dba Gayton Painting 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wayne Spencer Contracting 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE PSE&G NJ Projects & Construction 1,107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Haven Healthcare Center 1,107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Young Living Essential Oils - DC 1,107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berkeley, CA 1,106 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.