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 357 of 455| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helm Mechanical | Freeport | Plumbing and heating contrac | A | 1.1 |
| Perfection Plating Inc. | Elk Grove Village | Plating metals and metal pro | A | 1.1 |
| 905 N Lincoln | Springfield | Pavement, highway, road, str | A | 1.1 |
| DEAC Acquisition Corp | Elk Grove Village | Scaffold erecting and disman | A | 1.1 |
| Hotel Rehabs | Chicago | Administration building cons | A | 1.1 |
| Pipe Strong, LLC | Schaumburg | Natural gas pipeline constru | A | 1.1 |
| Metro Marble and Granite, LLC | Granite City | Countertops, stone, manufact | A | 1.1 |
| Eastern Illinois University | Charleston | Academies, college or univer | C | 1.1 |
| Chinatown office | Chicago | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | A | 1.1 |
| 1151 Ardmore Ave | Itasca | Air purification equipment, | A | 1.1 |
| Tridim Filter (Elgin) | Elgin | Filters, industrial and gene | A | 1.1 |
| South Holland-Hadady Corporation | South Holland | Industrial locomotives and p | A | 1.1 |
| Duro Bag - Alsip | Alsip | Paper Bag and Coated and Tre | A | 1.1 |
| University Park (Dralle Road) | University Park | Motor Freight Transportation | A | 1.1 |
| Boombah Inc. | Yorkville | Athletic equipment and suppl | A | 1.1 |
| Sterling Site Access Solutions, LLC. | Phoenix | Applicators, wood, manufactu | A | 1.1 |
| ATS Automation LLC, DBA Life Science Chicago | Rolling Meadows | Automation Assembly Machines | A | 1.1 |
| AKBA | Glenview | Controllers for process vari | A | 1.1 |
| Fleck's Landscaping | Wheeling | Landscape care and maintenan | A | 1.1 |
| Furst-McNess Company (Rockford) | Rockford | Livestock feeds, supplements | A | 1.1 |
| Il - Utas | Belvidere | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 1.1 |
| Palos School District 118 Transportation Department | Palos Heights | School bus services | A | 1.1 |
| Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 444 | Romeoville | Tree Trimming Services | A | 1.1 |
| C.E. Zuercher & Co., Inc. | Niles | Cheese merchant wholesalers | B | 1.1 |
| Johnson Power, Ltd. | Broadview | Universal joints (except air | A | 1.1 |
| Customer Service Group Crystal Lake Repair Center | Crystal Lake | Impact wrenches, handheld po | A | 1.1 |
| 421 Rem | Bolingbrook | Floor coverings, rubber, man | A | 1.1 |
| Highland Il | Highland | - | A | 1.1 |
| The Selfhelp Home | Chicago | Continuing care retirement c | A | 1.1 |
| PMI Energy Solutions LLC | Batavia | - | A | 1.1 |
| HCI | Frankfort | Construction management, wat | A | 1.1 |
| Peoria Marine | Creve Coeur Il | - | A | 1.1 |
| Schenker Inc. (Royal Canin - Edwardsville) | Edwardsville | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.1 |
| DuPont Gibson City | Gibson City | Lecithin, soybean, made in c | A | 1.1 |
| IL - Riviana Foods | Monee | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 1.1 |
| Branch 046 - MTS Schaumburg | Addison | Industrial supplies (except | B | 1.1 |
| Advantech Plastics | Woodstock | Bottle caps and lids, plasti | A | 1.1 |
| Scurto Cement Construction, Ltd. | Gilberts | Concrete pouring | A | 1.1 |
| Corporate Office Sunset Food Mart, Inc | Highland Park | Grocery stores | A | 1.1 |
| Waubonsee Community College | Sugar Grove | Community colleges | B | 1.1 |
| Xeikon (a subsidiary of Flint Group Packaging Ink North America Corp) | Elgin | Commercial digital printing | A | 1.1 |
| Abbott North Chicago | Waukegan | Janitorial services | A | 1.1 |
| American Buildings Company - IL | El Paso | Buildings, prefabricated met | A | 1.1 |
| Soldier Field | Chicago | Arena operators | A | 1.1 |
| Fresh Express - Streamwood | Streamwood | Vegetables, cut or peeled, f | A | 1.1 |
| 2302 Lowe S of Belleville Il | Belleville | Homecenter | A | 1.1 |
| IMI | Machesney Park | Actuators, fluid power, manu | A | 1.1 |
| Ferrara Candy | Chicago | Confectionery, nonchocolate, | A | 1.1 |
| OJCC LLC dba The Bridge Care Suites | Springfield | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.1 |
| Aurora, IL (Mazda) 102 | Aurora | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 1.1 |
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.