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 350 of 455| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hi-Line Elgin IL 7810 | Gilberts | - | B | 1.3 |
| Martin Sullivan Carthage IL | Carthage | Lawn power equipment stores | A | 1.3 |
| Food Packaging : GRANT PARK | Grant Park | All Other Plastics Product M | A | 1.3 |
| Corporate office | Lincolnwood | Janitorial Services | A | 1.3 |
| Bergners 502 Peru | Peru | Department stores (except di | A | 1.3 |
| Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group | Northlake | Printing inks manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| Unit # 2930 | North Aurora | Retail | A | 1.3 |
| 000007131 - Soldier Field - Suites | Chicago | Food Services | A | 1.3 |
| Lindenmeyr Carol Stream | Carol Stream | Fine paper, bulk, merchant w | B | 1.3 |
| Flagg Creek Water Reclamation District | Burr Ridge | Waste collection, treatment, | C | 1.3 |
| Sherlock School | Cicero | - | C | 1.3 |
| 881 Rem | Bolingbrook | Rubber floor coverings manuf | A | 1.3 |
| 4M - Normal | Normal | Building cleaning services, | A | 1.3 |
| Vcf 168 | Downers Grove | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | A | 1.3 |
| Pioneer Hi-Bred Intl Inc. Utica, IL | Utica | Seed processing, post-harves | A | 1.3 |
| Goodwill of Central Illinois - Pioneer | Peoria | Thrift shops, used merchandi | A | 1.3 |
| D4 District HQ | Peoria | Regulation and Administratio | A | 1.3 |
| Sunnyside Lakeview | Chicago | Marijuana stores, medical or | A | 1.3 |
| Centennial Contractors of the Quad Cities, Inc. | Moline | Foundation, building, poured | A | 1.3 |
| Counsel Construction | Wonder Lake | Carpentry, framing | A | 1.3 |
| Atlas Roofing Corporation | East Moline | Polyurethane foam products m | A | 1.3 |
| THC Commercial_Field Sales_Midwest | Deerfield | Candy merchant wholesalers | B | 1.3 |
| 1680 Lowe S of Quincy Il | Quincy | Homecenter | A | 1.3 |
| Craig Bachman Imports | Frankfort | Wholesale import | B | 1.3 |
| iCONN Systems LLC | Lombard | Connectors and terminals for | A | 1.3 |
| Universal Air Filter | Sauget | Filters, furnace, manufactur | A | 1.3 |
| 174 Machesney Park | Machesney Park | Department Store | A | 1.3 |
| WJT Belleville | Belleville | Low slope roofing installati | A | 1.3 |
| Bluff Equipment, Inc | Vandalia | Farm machinery and equipment | B | 1.3 |
| Chronos Imaging | Aurora | Irradiation apparatus and tu | A | 1.3 |
| C. Acitelli Heating & Piping Contractors, Inc. | Villa Park | Heating, ventilation and air | A | 1.3 |
| CHICAGO, IL (container) | Chicago | - | A | 1.3 |
| Powder Metal Company | Glendale Heights | Powder metallurgy products m | A | 1.3 |
| Baxter Healthcare US Technical Services | Deerfield | Medical and surgical equipme | B | 1.3 |
| Plews Distribution Center | Dixon | Automotive parts, new, merch | B | 1.3 |
| Chicago (University Park) | University Park | Metals Service Centers | B | 1.3 |
| S03738 - Lake County Material Recovery | Grayslake | - | A | 1.3 |
| Midway Windows and Doors Inc. | Bedford Park | Windows and window frames, v | A | 1.3 |
| AG Manufacturing | Rochelle | Engines and parts (except di | A | 1.3 |
| Medline Sterile Procedure Tray-Waukegan - SPT | Waukegan | Custom Kits | A | 1.3 |
| Rogan Corporation | Northbrook | Handles (e.g., brush, tool, | A | 1.2 |
| Stericycle - Aurora,IL | Aurora | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 1.2 |
| AMP Companies, Inc. | Galesburg | Electrical, electrical wirin | A | 1.2 |
| Thompson Pipe Group Pressure Beloit | South Beloit | Pipe, concrete, manufacturin | A | 1.2 |
| Naper Settlement | Naperville | Community museums | A | 1.2 |
| Quincy Oil Extraction | Quincy | - | A | 1.2 |
| SAC Wireless | Elgin | Communication tower construc | A | 1.2 |
| Bostik, Inc. | Calumet City | Resins, plastics (except cus | A | 1.2 |
| Amerisafe | Aurora | Building materials supply de | A | 1.2 |
| Tazewell County Highway Department | Tremont | Road construction | A | 1.2 |
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.