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 17 of 455| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson House/Frontier Soups | Gurnee | Freeze-dried, food processin | F | 15.3 |
| Cac Coporation | Carol Stream | Sheet metal forming machines | F | 15.3 |
| Roanoke Farmers Association | Roanoke | Grain elevators merchant who | F | 15.3 |
| Bedford Park_1434830 | Bedford Park | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.3 |
| Lockport Township Fire Protection District | Lockport | Ambulance and fire service c | F | 15.3 |
| The Growing Place nursery & flower farm, inc. | Naperville | Nursery and garden centers w | F | 15.2 |
| 608 | Romeoville | Couriers and express deliver | F | 15.2 |
| 496 Ofa71 | Effingham | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 15.2 |
| Village gf Deerfield - Public Works | Deerfield | Sidewalk, public, constructi | F | 15.2 |
| Advanced Disposal - Charleston | Charleston | - | F | 15.2 |
| Willow Rose | Jerseyville | Nursing Care Facilities | F | 15.2 |
| CPD-9th District Police Station | 3120 S. Halsted St. | Chicago | Police Protection | F | 15.2 |
| Aim Integrated Logistics Inc. Fresh Thyme | Bolingbrook | General freight trucking, lo | F | 15.2 |
| City of Charleston Public Works Garage | Charleston | Sidewalk, public, constructi | F | 15.2 |
| Peterson Park Health Care Center | Chicago | Nursing homes | F | 15.2 |
| Bloomignton RHCC | Bloomington | Nursing Care Facilities | F | 15.2 |
| LaMoine Valley Farms, LLC. | Colchester | Hog and pig (including breed | F | 15.2 |
| Birkey's Farm Store, Inc. - Annawan | Annawan | Farm machinery and equipment | F | 15.2 |
| 161581-Chi-Robert Leflore Sta | Chicago | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.2 |
| Heritage Manor - Mt. Zion #138 | Mt. Zion | Convalescent homes or conval | F | 15.2 |
| Decorously Deft Delivery & Transport LLC | Calumet City | Courier services (i.e., inte | F | 15.1 |
| ARC Rockford Warehouse | Rockford | Warehousing and storage, gen | F | 15.1 |
| Cemetery PW | Macomb | Cemetery plot care services | F | 15.1 |
| 6458-CHIC | Chicago | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 15.1 |
| 1855-AHSCM17 | Park Ridge | Nursing Care Facilities (Ski | F | 15.1 |
| Sheraton Chicago Northbrook Hotel | Northbrook | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 15.1 |
| MPEA | Chicago | Food service contractors, co | F | 15.1 |
| D4 Peoria West Yard | Edwards | Highway, Street, and Bridge | F | 15.1 |
| Station 1 | Manito | Ambulance and fire service c | F | 15.1 |
| Belvidere Recycling LLC | Belvidere | Containers, wood, manufactur | F | 15.1 |
| 606420000 | Chicago | - | F | 15.1 |
| Helping Hand - Countryside | Countryside | Activity centers for disable | F | 15.1 |
| Bickford of Peoria 1 | Peoria | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 15.1 |
| East Dundee and Countryside Fire Protection District | East Dundee | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 15.1 |
| Nefab Packaging North central LLC | Hanoverpark | Pallet containers, wood or w | F | 15.1 |
| 4795-Ea-Ord-Chicago - Ohare-Eagle Acs | Chicago | Scheduled Air Service | F | 15.1 |
| ACC-ORD | Bensenville | General freight trucking, lo | F | 15.1 |
| Draw Enterprises III | Chicago | Recyclable material collecti | F | 15.1 |
| Chicago | Northlake | Business to Consumer retail | F | 15.0 |
| Dwight, IL | Dwight | General combination crop far | F | 15.0 |
| 1882 - Willowbrook | Willowbrook | Discount Department Stores | F | 15.0 |
| 1855-AHSCM14 | Des Plaines | Nursing Care Facilities (Ski | F | 15.0 |
| Prairie Living at Chautauqua | Carbondale | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 15.0 |
| 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03341 | Wood Dale | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 15.0 |
| Peapod Lake Zurich Warehouse | Lake Zurich | Grocery Delivery Service | F | 15.0 |
| Northwestern Medicine Surgery Center Warrenville | Warrenville | Ambulatory surgical centers | F | 15.0 |
| Hope Clinic for Women | Granite City | Ambulatory surgical centers | F | 15.0 |
| Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Child & Family Center | Evanston | Boys' and girls' residential | F | 15.0 |
| Illans-Opi-Lansing 479 | Lansing | PLASMA COLLECTION | F | 15.0 |
| Service Pallet, LLC | North Aurora | Building board (e.g., fiber, | F | 15.0 |
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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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.