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 39 of 455| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty3 Logistics Inc | Chicago Heights | Local letter and parcel deli | D | 11.3 |
| The Allegro Royal Sonesta Chicago | Chicago | Hotels, resort, without casi | F | 11.3 |
| Monical's Pizza Charleston | Charleston | Full service restaurants | F | 11.2 |
| Goodwill Rockford | Rockford | Vocational rehabilitation or | F | 11.2 |
| Ridott Plant | Ridott | Farm supply stores | F | 11.2 |
| Pete's Fresh Market 4343 Corporation | Chicago | Grocery stores | F | 11.2 |
| 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03426 | Glenview | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.2 |
| 6615_15367 | St. Charles | - | F | 11.2 |
| Midwest Wrecking Company | Elgin | Demolition contractor | F | 11.2 |
| Arbor - El Paso Gridley Sd 11 | Gridley | Cafeteria food services cont | F | 11.2 |
| Friendship Manor | Rock Island | Continuing care retirement c | F | 11.2 |
| Martin Sullivan Brimfield IL | Brimfield | Lawn power equipment stores | F | 11.2 |
| 3260 | Swansea | Home Health Care Services | F | 11.2 |
| Fox River Grove Fire Protection District | Fox River Grove | Ambulance and fire service c | F | 11.2 |
| Richardson Manufacturing Company | Springfiled | Machine shops | F | 11.2 |
| General Parts Lombard, IL | Lombard | Service machinery and equipm | F | 11.2 |
| 6458-ZECR | Carol Stream | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 11.2 |
| Bat 75 | Rockford | - | F | 11.2 |
| City of Wood River Fire Department | Wood River | Firefighting (except forest) | F | 11.2 |
| 6 Dearborn Sq | Kankakee | - | F | 11.2 |
| Harvey/Chicago Heights (Ilhar) | Harvey | Courier Services Except by A | D | 11.2 |
| Used Car Superstore | Lisle | Automobile dealers, used onl | F | 11.2 |
| 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03262 | Chicago | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.2 |
| 5472-NAI-0032-0032-00607 | Oak Lawn | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.2 |
| 165190-Minooka Po | Minooka | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.2 |
| University Health Service UIC Rockford | Rockford | Medical schools | F | 11.2 |
| 167066-Sch-Roselle Br | Roselle | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.2 |
| 161531-Chi-John J Buchanan Sta | Chicago | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.2 |
| Arrowhead Golf Maintenance | Wheaton | Golf and country clubs | F | 11.2 |
| 134531 | East Dundee | Landscaping Services | F | 11.2 |
| Alton Memorial Rehabilitation & Therapy | Alton | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.2 |
| Heritage Woods of Moline | Moline | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.2 |
| Gateck Logistics Solutions | Bolingbrook | Express delivery services (e | D | 11.2 |
| Good Foods LLC | Chicago | Eggs, processed, manufacturi | F | 11.2 |
| Chicago Greyhound | Chicago | Bus charter services (except | F | 11.2 |
| 1111 103rd St Scheduled Transit Operations | Chicago | Mixed Mode Transit Systems | F | 11.2 |
| Bridgeway Senior Living | Bensenville | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.2 |
| 161595-Chi-Wicker Park Sta | Chicago | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.2 |
| Illinois Public Risk Fund | Tinley Park | Fire/Rescue/EMS | F | 11.2 |
| Will County / 55889 | Joliet | Paratransit transportation s | F | 11.2 |
| Alter Metal Recycling - Behr Iron South Beloit - Fe Operations | South Beloit | General-line scrap merchant | F | 11.2 |
| 980710 | Bolingbrook | - | D | 11.2 |
| Villas of Holly Brook - Streator | Streator | Assisted Living Facilities f | F | 11.2 |
| City of Chicago - Commission on Animal Care and Control | Chicago | Animal hospitals | F | 11.2 |
| Morton Grove Public Works | Morton Grove | General services departments | F | 11.2 |
| Alden Gardens of Waterford | Aurora | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.2 |
| D9 Harrisburg Yard | Harrisburg | Highway, Street, and Bridge | F | 11.2 |
| 1953-1342 | Chicago | Local Public Transit | F | 11.2 |
| Golden | Golden | Casings, sausage, nonrigid p | F | 11.2 |
| D1 Woodstock Yard | Woodstock | Highway, Street, and Bridge | F | 11.2 |
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.