Highway, street and bridge lighting and electrical signal installation · Illinois

Western Utility LLC

University Park, Il, IL · ~103 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western Utility LLC runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Highway, street and bridge lighting and electrical signal installation workplace, earning a grade B.

Western Utility LLC: 1.9 TCR = 68% of Highway, street and bridge lighting and electrical signal installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Utility LLC safety composite

Western Utility LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Western Utility LLC: 1.7 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2024

Western Utility LLC's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.7 in 2023 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · University Park, Il, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 68% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #75/152
  • PHOTO Neubauer Electric
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Neubauer Electric (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Utility LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western Utility LLC averages 1.9 TCR (68% of the Highway, street and bridge lighting and electrical signal installation BLS benchmark).

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

Western Utility LLC TCR series: 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Western Utility LLC falls in its industry

4,550 Highway, street and bridge lig establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #75 safest of 152 Highway, street and bridge lig employers in Illinois.

Western Utility LLC (103 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Western Utility LLC
Western Utility LLC (103 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Western Utility LLC has more employees than the Highway, street and bridge lighting and median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2023 1.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · IL · University Park, Il

4,550 Highway, street and bridge lighting and electrical signal installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 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 Neubauer Electric 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MetroPower Inc BR4 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atwood Electric, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR C&C Group - Lenexa, KS 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maywood Tech Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bellwood Reporting Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, Braidwood Station 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lee's Foodservice Parts & Repair, Inc. 103 FTE
NAT-TCR Aldevron Madison, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR United Infrastructure Group 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Portland,OR 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Syracuse 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Synergy Installation Solutions 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loris Rehab and Nursing Center 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walnut Ridge Service Center 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE World Equestrian Center 103 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. 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.