High schools · Illinois

West Chicago Community High School

West Chicago, IL · ~256 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Chicago Community High School runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical High schools workplace, earning a grade F.

West Chicago Community High School: 3.3 TCR = 236% of High schools BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Chicago Community High School safety composite

West Chicago Community High School scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

West Chicago Community High School: 1.4 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2019

West Chicago Community High School's TCR rose 4.5 from 1.4 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · West Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 3.3 · 236% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #169/312
  • PHOTO College Park Middle …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~256 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: College Park Middle School (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Chicago Community High School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Chicago Community High School averages 3.3 TCR (236% of the High schools BLS benchmark).

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

West Chicago Community High School TCR series: 2017=1.4 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=5.8 · BLS 1.4

Where West Chicago Community High School falls in its industry

3,374 High schools establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #169 safest of 312 High schools employers in Illinois.

West Chicago Community High School (256 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate West Chicago Community High School
West Chicago Community High School (256 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

West Chicago Community High School has more employees than the High schools median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2019 5.8 2.1 11 0 0
2018 2.7 2.1 5 0 0
2017 1.4 0.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · West Chicago

3,374 High schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West Chicago, 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 College Park Middle School 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elem School 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Township High School District #30 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washburn 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Loders Croklaan USA, LLC 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE FCL Graphics, Inc. 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chemtech Plastics Inc. 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Bearing Company 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Wendy's Store #314 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayo Clinic Health System-Northridge 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR George's Edinburg Processing Plant 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Alaska Regional Hospital - CNS 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phoenix (HR) 256 FTE
NAT-SIZE HP Hood Oneida 256 FTE
NAT-SIZE HFI, LLC Gender Road 256 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schneider Electric - Lincoln, Nebraska 256 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: 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.