State profile · OSHA ITA
Illinois workplace safety
How 22,804 OSHA-reporting employers across Illinois compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 22,804
- Employers
- 5.3
- Avg TCR
- 455,778
- Injuries
- 303
- Fatalities
The state picture
Illinois's 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 · per 100 workers
- 22,804
- employers reporting
- 455,778
- recordable injuries
- 303
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
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.
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, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
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 347 of 455| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DBM Main | Mokena | Finishing drywall contractor | A | 1.3 |
| Cook Sales Inc Illinois | Cobden | Buildings, prefabricated, wo | A | 1.3 |
| LEM Decatur | Decatur | Transmission and distributio | A | 1.3 |
| Nidec Mobility America Corporation | St. Charles | Keyless entry systems, autom | A | 1.3 |
| Mid America Energy Services, Inc. | Aurora | Directional drilling of oil | B | 1.3 |
| MainTech - Chicago and Northern Route/Remote Sites | Chicago | Industrial Mechanical | B | 1.3 |
| Hudson Champaign | Champaign | Industrial gases manufacturi | A | 1.3 |
| Taylorville CUSD #3 | Taylorville | Academies, elementary or sec | C | 1.3 |
| Mec De Joint Venture | Rock Island | Commercial building construc | A | 1.3 |
| Prikos & Becker, LLC | Skokie | Metal stampings (except auto | A | 1.3 |
| Master Graphics LLC | Rochelle | Offset printing (except book | A | 1.3 |
| CGH Medical Center patient Accounts and Day care 2nd Ave. Building | Sterling | Child day care centers | A | 1.3 |
| Vaxcel International Co., Ltd. | Carol Stream | Lamps (i.e., lighting fixtur | B | 1.3 |
| Landstar - Rockford | Rockford | Trucking, general freight, l | A | 1.3 |
| Vapor Bus International | Buffalo Grove | Air brake systems and parts, | A | 1.3 |
| Olney | Olney | Grain elevators merchant who | B | 1.3 |
| 206 Caterpillar KK East Peoria IL | East Peoria | Factory Maintenance Services | B | 1.3 |
| UIC - East | Chicago | - | A | 1.3 |
| Branch 7074 - WP Glenn Ave | Wheeling | Automotive Parts | A | 1.3 |
| Eastland Feed & Grain Inc | Shannon | Animal feed mills (except do | A | 1.3 |
| Madison County Public Defender | Edwardsville | Attorneys' offices | F | 1.3 |
| Wm 352 | Chester | - | A | 1.3 |
| Bennett Metal Products, Inc. | Mt. Vernon | Machine shops | A | 1.3 |
| Palatine High School | Palatine | - | C | 1.3 |
| West Chicago - Roosevelt | West Chicago | Fence installation (except e | A | 1.3 |
| 4238-961 | Aurora | Residential Mental Health an | A | 1.3 |
| Bergstrom Inc., Falcon Rd | Rockford | Air-conditioners, motor vehi | A | 1.3 |
| Fluid Management | Wheeling | Dispensing and measuring pum | A | 1.3 |
| North Palos Fire Protection District | Palos Hills | Fire Protection | A | 1.3 |
| Ottawa Dental Laboratory - Starfire Dr | Ottawa | Dental laboratories | A | 1.3 |
| IS - FS - Northern USA | Westchester | Commercial and Industrial Ma | B | 1.3 |
| General Mills (Belvidere) | Belvidere | Frozen fruits, fruit juices, | A | 1.3 |
| Miller Container - Clinton | Clinton | Corrugated and solid fiber b | A | 1.3 |
| Delta Unibus Division (DUB) | Northlake | Power transformers, electric | A | 1.3 |
| Sales - Section 33 - Schaumburg, IL | Schaumburg | Tobacco products merchant wh | B | 1.3 |
| Macon Construction Group, Inc. | Chicago | Condominium, single-family, | A | 1.3 |
| Corporate #001 | Morton | Farm building construction | A | 1.3 |
| OP | Orland Park | Raceways manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| PCS Naperville | Naperville | Printed circuit laminates ma | A | 1.3 |
| Roy Zenere Trucking & Excavating Inc. | Thornton | Excavation contractors | A | 1.3 |
| 041-QAD | East Moline | Transportation | A | 1.3 |
| Stryker Medical Sage Products | Cary | Abrasive points, wheels, and | A | 1.3 |
| Fotofab | Chicago | Etching metals and metal pro | A | 1.3 |
| Dakkota Integrated Systems | Chicago | Unmanned and robotic automob | A | 1.3 |
| Cole-Parmer Instruments LLC | Vernon Hills | Scientific laboratory equipm | B | 1.3 |
| Weaver Consultants Group, LLC | Chicago | - | F | 1.3 |
| 244 Market Place | Columbia | Grocery Store | A | 1.3 |
| New Lenox_1374771 | New Lenox | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.3 |
| Rockford Gastroenterology Associates, Ltd. | Rockford | Gastroenterologists' offices | A | 1.3 |
| Best Courier Yard | Gurnee | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.3 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Illinois's safety record means for you
Illinois averages a TCR of 5.3 - about 2.0× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
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.