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 349 of 455| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cosco Industries - 0187a | Harwood Heights | - | A | 1.3 |
| Midwest Valve Services Minooka | Minooka | Hydraulic equipment repair a | B | 1.3 |
| Geneva Construction | Aurora | Asphalting, residential and | A | 1.3 |
| Berkots 302 | Coal City | Grocery stores | A | 1.3 |
| Glenwood | Glenwood | Remediation and clean up of | A | 1.3 |
| Winpak Heat Seal Corporation | Pekin | COMMERCIAL FLEXOGRAPHIC PRIN | A | 1.3 |
| Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 | Princeton | Planting crops | A | 1.3 |
| Carpentersville Facility | Carpentersville | Resins, plastics (except cus | A | 1.3 |
| Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas Marengo | Marengo | Forklifts manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| Medcor, Inc | Mchenry | Nurses', licensed practical | A | 1.3 |
| Masterbrand | Arthur | Kitchen cabinets (except fre | A | 1.3 |
| Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. - North Central Region | West Chicago | Chromatographic instruments, | A | 1.3 |
| Kirby Foods Clinton IL | Clinton | Grocery stores | A | 1.3 |
| Darwill Hillside | Hillside | Offset printing (except book | A | 1.3 |
| HydraForce, Inc IC | Vernon Hills | Fluid power valves and hose | A | 1.3 |
| 1502 | Romeoville | GENERAL WAREHOUSING AND STOR | A | 1.3 |
| Arjo Inc. | Addison | Appliances, surgical, mercha | B | 1.3 |
| 725 - Bucktown | Chicago | - | A | 1.3 |
| NNR Global Logistics USA Inc | Itasca | Freight forwarding | A | 1.3 |
| United States Alliance Fire Protection, Inc. | Lake Forest | Sprinkler system, building, | A | 1.3 |
| Cc - Cs S | Chicago | Scheduled Passenger Air Tran | A | 1.3 |
| Glen Ellyn Reporting Center | Glen Ellyn | Distribution of natural gas | C | 1.3 |
| Hinsdale Nurseries, Inc. Plano | Plano | Agriculture production or ha | A | 1.3 |
| Landsberg Chicago | Lombard | Packaging Distribution | A | 1.3 |
| Honeywell Safety Products | Rock Island | Boots, plastics or plastics | A | 1.3 |
| Plainfield PN | Plainfield | Other Chemical and Allied Pr | B | 1.3 |
| PMall Burr Ridge 5401 5401 | Burr Ridge | - | A | 1.3 |
| Starcon @ FHR Channahon | Channahon | Mechanical contractors | A | 1.3 |
| Manusos General Contracting, Inc. | Fox Lake | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.3 |
| Wilson Hunt International, Ltd / DBA Champro Sports | Bannockburn | Sporting goods and supplies | B | 1.3 |
| 355 - Rockford | Rockford | Industrial Launderers | B | 1.3 |
| Shop/Office | Cambridge | Trucking, general freight, l | A | 1.3 |
| Danville Area Community College | Danville | Colleges, community | C | 1.3 |
| NG Ancona (Streator) Storage Station | Streator | Distribution of natural gas | C | 1.3 |
| First Industrial Realty Trust | Chicago | Mortgage real estate investm | F | 1.3 |
| John A. Logan College | Carterville | Colleges, community | C | 1.3 |
| MCC Label - Niles | Niles | Print shops, lithographic (o | A | 1.3 |
| Il133 Powervar, Mfg | Waukegan | Manufacture of surge protect | A | 1.3 |
| 0191 Lowe S of Rockford Il | Rockford | Homecenter | A | 1.3 |
| BNY Chicago | Chicago | 561210 Facilities Support Se | A | 1.3 |
| Hardt Electric, INC | Chicago | Fire alarm system, electric, | A | 1.3 |
| Lanxess Corporation - Mapleton Site | Mapleton | Organo-inorganic compound ma | A | 1.3 |
| Slate Demolition LLC | Chicago | Demolition contractor | A | 1.3 |
| Crate and Barrel Photo Studio | Chicago | Commercial photography servi | F | 1.3 |
| AMS Mechanical Systems, Inc | Woodridge | Pipe fitting contractors | A | 1.3 |
| 177 - Mt Prospect | Mt. Prospect | - | A | 1.3 |
| HG118 | Palatine | Homefurnishings stores | A | 1.3 |
| Chicago Converted Products | Chicago | Binder's board manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| 168409-Chicago Insp Svc Division | Chicago | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.3 |
| Ross store 1589 | Darien | Retail Store | 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.