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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 35 of 455| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHI Greenhouse LLC | Rochelle | Hydroponic crop farming | F | 11.8 |
| Aledo Rehabilitation and Health Care | Aledo | Nursing Care Facilities | D | 11.8 |
| 4021-000005662 | Chicago | Food Services | F | 11.8 |
| B & D Independence LLC | Mount Carmel | Orthopedic devices manufactu | F | 11.8 |
| Mount Sinai Hospital | Chicago | General medical and surgical | F | 11.8 |
| ALTON_1352866 | Alton | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.8 |
| Galena - Resort | Galena | Hotels and Motels | F | 11.8 |
| ILC007 | Crestwood | Tire Dealers | F | 11.8 |
| Lee Manor | Des Plaines | Nursing homes | D | 11.8 |
| 20031 Midwest Distribution Center (New) | Chicago | - | F | 11.8 |
| Avantara Long Grove | Long Grove | Nursing homes | D | 11.8 |
| CPD-14th District Police Station | 2150 N. California Ave. | Chicago | Police Protection | F | 11.8 |
| MCI Sales & Service Inc, Des Plaines | Des Plaines | Truck repair shops, general | F | 11.8 |
| REN252 Wheeling | Libertyville | Exterminating and Pest Contr | F | 11.8 |
| Heritage Woods of Centralia | Centralia | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.8 |
| Park Department | Carlyle | City and town councils | F | 11.8 |
| United Performance Metals - CHI | Northbrook | Metal products (e.g., bars, | F | 11.8 |
| Village of Northbrook - Fire | Northbrook | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 11.8 |
| 165485-Npv-Naper West Sta | Naperville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.8 |
| 6458-ZSST | Sauget | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 11.8 |
| Lakeside Metals Plant | Chicago | Metals service centers | F | 11.7 |
| UNFI - Champaign DC, IL | Urbana | General-line groceries merch | F | 11.7 |
| North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MDW6 | Romeoville | General Warehousing and Stor | F | 11.7 |
| Morton Grove IL Store | Morton Grove | Used merchandise stores | F | 11.7 |
| 000080-Cicero Il (Chicago) | Cicero | Motor Vehicle Supplies & New | F | 11.7 |
| Hallmark of Carlinville | Carlinville | Nursing homes | D | 11.7 |
| TWO MEN AND A TRUCK Crystal Lake | Crystal Lake | Used household and office go | F | 11.7 |
| 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03394 | Huntley | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.7 |
| Mercy At Home | Oak Brook | Home health agencies | F | 11.7 |
| Huntley Park District REC Center | Huntley | Community recreation program | F | 11.7 |
| Washington Christian Village | Washington | Continuing care retirement c | F | 11.7 |
| Romeoville - CPL | Lockport | Prestressed concrete product | F | 11.7 |
| Pete's Fresh Market 4700 Corporation | Chicago | Grocery stores | F | 11.7 |
| Burklund Distributors, Inc | East Peoria | Tobacco products merchant wh | F | 11.7 |
| Village of Hanover Park Fire | Hanover Park | Firefighting (except forest) | F | 11.7 |
| Cardinal Health | Channahon | Medical sundries, rubber, me | F | 11.7 |
| CH Services | Villa Park | School bus services | F | 11.7 |
| Us Truck Body/Midwest | Streator | Motor Vehicle Body Manufactu | F | 11.7 |
| Village of New Lenox | New Lenox | Government base facilities o | F | 11.7 |
| Village of Lincolnwood | Lincolnwood | Executive offices, federal, | F | 11.7 |
| Gabby's Bagels Inc | Franklin Park | Commercial bakeries | F | 11.7 |
| Arntzen Corporation | Rockford | Conduit, welded and lock joi | F | 11.7 |
| Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc | Streator | Glass packaging containers m | F | 11.7 |
| North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : STL4 | Edwardsville | General Warehousing and Stor | F | 11.7 |
| 400345900 - Carpentersville | Algonquin | Food Services | F | 11.7 |
| M-5 | Hoffman Estates | Bridge, tunnel, and highway | F | 11.7 |
| Runnings of Morris | Morris | General stores | F | 11.7 |
| 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03182 | Lemont | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.7 |
| Gardner Fire Protection District | Gardner | Ambulance and fire service c | F | 11.7 |
| Pete's Fresh Market Madison Corporation | Chicago | Grocery stores | F | 11.7 |
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.