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 28 of 455| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Village of Arlington Heights - Fire Department | Arlington Heights | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 12.9 |
| Wooden Shoe Logistics LLC | Chicago | General freight trucking, lo | F | 12.9 |
| Scout Veterinary Urgent Care- Lincoln Park | Chicago | Veterinary clinics | F | 12.9 |
| St. Clara's Rehab & Senior Care | Lincoln | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 12.9 |
| Fire Department | Normal | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 12.9 |
| Fire Department | Lake Bluff | Firefighting (except forest) | F | 12.9 |
| 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03461 | Arlington Heights | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 12.9 |
| 162148-Dolton Po | Dolton | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 12.9 |
| Chicago-North | Addison | Laundries, linen and uniform | F | 12.9 |
| Laureate Chicago Operations, LLC | Chicago | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 12.9 |
| Alden Estates of Shorewood | Shorewood | Homes for the elderly with n | D | 12.9 |
| Naylor Pipe Co | Chicago | Cold rolling steel shapes (e | F | 12.8 |
| Chateau Center Nursing and Rehabilitation Center | Willobrook | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 12.8 |
| 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03167 | South Chicago Heights | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 12.8 |
| 162442-Elgin Po | Elgin | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 12.8 |
| Village of Riverside - Fire Department | Riverside | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 12.8 |
| Wood River_1388146 | Wood River | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 12.8 |
| Ilpal - Palatine | Palatine | Couriers and Express Deliver | D | 12.8 |
| JSM Management Inc | Champaign | Apartment managers' offices | F | 12.8 |
| Northwest St. Clair County Fire Fire Protection District | Belleville | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 12.8 |
| 165010-Melrose Park Po | Melrose Park | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 12.8 |
| Elmwood Terrace Health Care Center | Aurora | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 12.8 |
| Courtyard Chicago Elmhurst Oakbrook Area | Elmhurst | Hotel management services | F | 12.8 |
| SCHAUMBURG_1380932 | Schaumburg | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 12.8 |
| Clarendon Hills Fire Department | Clarendon Hills | Ambulance and fire service c | F | 12.8 |
| Blue Ridge Senior Housing | Park Ridge Illinois | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 12.8 |
| Dutchman Creek, LLC. | Browning | Hog and pig (including breed | F | 12.8 |
| Department of Streets & Sanitation - Bureau of Sanitation District Sanitation Office - D5 | Chicago | Refuse collection services | F | 12.8 |
| Village of South Elgin - Police Department | South Elgin | Police departments (except A | F | 12.8 |
| D3 Ottawa Yard | Ottawa | Highway, Street, and Bridge | F | 12.8 |
| Mid-State Tank Co., Inc. - Plant 3 | Arthur | Tanks, heavy gauge metal, ma | F | 12.8 |
| GLENVIEW_1364996 | Glenview | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 12.8 |
| O'Brien Steel Service - Meta Tec | Lacon | Pig iron merchant wholesaler | F | 12.8 |
| Weinberg Community for Senior Living | Deerfield | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 12.8 |
| 2248-63129 | Buffalo Grove | Assisted Living | F | 12.8 |
| IL - Harvey - 1230 W. 171st St - The American Bottling Company | Hazelcrest | Other Grocery and Related Pr | F | 12.8 |
| deLacey Family Education Center | Carpentersville | Elementary School | F | 12.8 |
| Lake Forest Place LLC | Lake Forest | Retirement communities, cont | F | 12.8 |
| Northwest Community Hospital Behavioral Health Center | Arlington Heights | Psychiatric centers and clin | F | 12.7 |
| Arcadia Care Jacksonville | Jacksonville | Nursing homes | D | 12.7 |
| LSB - Arlington Hts | Arlington Hts | Beer merchant wholesalers | F | 12.7 |
| ILC005 | Naperville | Tire Dealers | F | 12.7 |
| Martin Tractor Inc Brimfield IL | Brimfield | Lawn power equipment stores | F | 12.7 |
| D3 Kankakee Yard | Kankakee | Highway, Street, and Bridge | F | 12.7 |
| Artis Senior Living of Bartlett | Bartlett | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 12.7 |
| Solana Deer Park | Deer Park | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 12.7 |
| work | Mccook | Boxes, corrugated and solid | F | 12.7 |
| DOLTON_1361005 | Dolton | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 12.7 |
| Area-Lincoln | Lincoln | Waste collection services, n | F | 12.7 |
| Sterling Police Department | Sterling | Police departments (except A | F | 12.7 |
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.