School districts, elementary or secondary · Illinois

Wheeling School District 21

Wheeling, IL · ~967 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.2
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wheeling School District 21 runs at 1226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School districts, elementary or secondary workplace, earning a grade F.

Wheeling School District 21: 17.2 TCR = 1226% of School districts, elementary or secondary BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wheeling School District 21 safety composite

Wheeling School District 21 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Wheeling School District 21: 3.6 → 30.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 30.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2023

Wheeling School District 21's TCR rose 27.0 from 3.6 in 2022 to 30.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Wheeling, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.2 · 1226% of ind

  • DART 12.8 DART
  • RANK #308/312
  • PHOTO Park Side Elementary
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~967 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Park Side Elementary (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wheeling School District 21 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wheeling School District 21 averages 17.2 TCR (1226% of the School districts, elementary or secondary BLS benchmark).

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

Wheeling School District 21 TCR series: 2022=3.6 · 2023=30.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Wheeling School District 21 falls in its industry

3,374 School districts, elementary o establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #308 safest of 312 School districts, elementary o employers in Illinois.

Wheeling School District 21 (967 employees, TCR 17.2) 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 Wheeling School District 21
Wheeling School District 21 (967 employees, TCR 17.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Wheeling School District 21 has more employees than the School districts, elementary or secondar median and a higher 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
2023 30.7 12.8 24 0 0
2022 3.6 0.9 28 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IL · Wheeling

3,374 School districts, elementary or secondary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 136 employers in Wheeling, 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 Park Side Elementary 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richland County CUSD #1 (Bus Garage/Transportation) 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Secondary Support 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maine School Solutions 17.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Archer Heights 968 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Staff Offices NAHQ 970 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland LP 963 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4818-48180018-300 E. CROSSROADS PKWY-WC 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL-01 4,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office - 01 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Response Team 1 728 FTE
CITY-NEAR SG360 Wolf Facility 661 FTE
NAT-TCR Modesto DC #089 17.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Commodity Forwarders Inc. (LAX-5814) 17.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonata Delray Beach 17.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Contract Delivery Services, Inc 17.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Evergreen Packaging - Canton 967 FTE
NAT-SIZE CB Harvesting 967 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. David's Round Rock Medical Center Hospital 967 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doyle Security Services 967 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.