TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.3 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Illinois workplace safety
How 22,804 OSHA-reporting employers across Illinois compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 19,988 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 22,804
- Employers
- 5.3
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 455,778
- Injuries (all)
- 303
- Fatalities (all)
Illinois vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
22,804 4th of 54 higher than 50 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Illinois's 19,988 rated reporting employers average 5.3 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.0 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.3
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 19,988
- rated employers
- 22,804
- all reporting employers
- 455,778
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 22,804 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 16% B · 13% C · 27% D · 21% F · 24%
24% of Illinois's reporting establishments earn an F and 16% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Illinois ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRIllinois's average TCR of 5.3 is lower than 51% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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How Illinois Workplaces Compare
Illinois hosts 22,804 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Illinois cohort, workers have logged 455,778 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 19,988 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 303 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Illinois, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Illinois, by injury rate
Page 152 of 455| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Right/Pointe, LLC | Dekalb | Asphalt paving mixtures made | D | 5.3 |
| 0840 - Naperville | Naperville | Discount Department Stores | D | 5.3 |
| Chicago Meat Authority | Chicago | Meat Processing | D | 5.3 |
| Winchester | Winchester | Agricultural chemicals merch | F | 5.3 |
| Fulton Troika LLC | Chicago | Cutting of purchased carcass | F | 5.3 |
| Neil Street_1434885 | Champaign | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.3 |
| ibuilders corp | Chicago | Carpentry, framing | D | 5.3 |
| Wm 2934 | Paris | - | D | 5.3 |
| Springfield Airport Authority | Springfield | Air passenger carriers, sche | C | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #86 ALTON, IL | Alton | Retail Other | D | 5.3 |
| Synergy Construction Group | Chicago | Construction management, com | D | 5.3 |
| ABC Supply Co Inc, 030 Aurora, IL | Aurora | Roofing, Siding, and Insulat | F | 5.3 |
| 4598-Rtl Chicago Idealease | Chicago | Truck, Utility, Trainler, an | F | 5.3 |
| Schaumburg Division | Schaumburg | Metals service centers | F | 5.3 |
| Alden Estates-Courts of Huntley | Huntley | Homes for the elderly with n | C | 5.3 |
| 1275 N Water St | Decatur | - | F | 5.3 |
| 5472-000003272 | Dekalb | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.3 |
| Lexington Health Care of Schaumburg | Schaumburg | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.3 |
| Loyola Ctr for Health-On Roosevelt | Maywood | Internists' offices (e.g., c | D | 5.3 |
| 5472-000003111 | Naperville | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.3 |
| Koppers Stickney | Stickney | Carbon organic compounds, no | D | 5.3 |
| GELITA USA Chicago | Calumet City | Gelatin for cooking manufact | D | 5.3 |
| The Whitehall Hotel | Chicago | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.3 |
| Marengo Fire Protection District | Marengo | Firefighting (except forest) | D | 5.3 |
| Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights | Arlington Heights | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | D | 5.3 |
| Pacific Press Holdings | Mt Carmel | Press brakes, metalworking, | D | 5.3 |
| Q Center | St. Charles | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.3 |
| Ace Hardware Antioch | Antioch | Hardware stores | D | 5.3 |
| Gibson Area Hospital | Gibson City | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 5.3 |
| Talerico Martin 7224 | Summit | Commercial bakeries | D | 5.3 |
| 60098 Sunrise Villa Olympia Fields | Olympia Fields | Assisted Living | D | 5.3 |
| Red Bud Regional Hospital | Red Bud | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 5.3 |
| 165652-Newton Po | Newton | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.3 |
| Vista Outdoor | Rantoul | Ammunition, sporting, mercha | F | 5.3 |
| 621H-SEG1-621H | Forest Park | 501 (3) (C) CHARITABLE ORGAN | D | 5.3 |
| Meijer 262 | Orland Park | Grocery stores | D | 5.3 |
| ATS Medical Services | Loves Park | Ambulance services, air or g | D | 5.3 |
| Reserve Marine Terminals | Chicago | Metal scrap and waste mercha | F | 5.3 |
| Edwards | Edwards | Warehouse Delivery | F | 5.3 |
| Chicago Distribution Center | Bolingbrook | Private warehousing and stor | C | 5.3 |
| 5472-000003302 | Chicago | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.3 |
| IMPACTLIFE - Urbana | Urbana | Blood banks | D | 5.3 |
| Celebrate Senior Living of Niles | Niles | Continuing care retirement c | D | 5.3 |
| Matteson Il - 3087 | Matteson | Home Centers | D | 5.3 |
| Nai-0032-0032-03073 Fac-03073-Normal-Il | Normal | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.3 |
| Mattoon Precision Manufacturing, Inc. | Mattoon | Machine shops | D | 5.3 |
| Swiss Automation, Inc. - Cary | Cary | Precision turned product man | D | 5.3 |
| Lake Cable LLC - Foster | Bensenville | Cable, noninsulated wire, ma | D | 5.3 |
| Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill | Crest Hill | Potato chips manufacturing | D | 5.3 |
| OakHill | Waterloo | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.3 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Illinois: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.3 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (22,804 here).
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.