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 51 of 455| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troy Fire Protection District | Troy | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 10.1 |
| Mt. Vernon Il - 3350 | Mount Vernon | Home Centers | F | 10.1 |
| Aurora Bickford | Aurora | Continuing Care Retirement C | F | 10.1 |
| Aperion Care Wilmington | Wilmington | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 10.1 |
| Dickey Manufacturing Co | St Charles | Gasket, packing, and sealing | F | 10.1 |
| Glen Ellyn Storage Corp | Chicago | General warehousing and stor | D | 10.1 |
| 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03464 | Grayslake | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 10.1 |
| McCook Yard 150 | Mccook | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | F | 10.1 |
| The Lighthouse at Ishpeming Health and Rehabilitation Center | Skokie | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 10.1 |
| City Hall | Palos Heights | General public administratio | F | 10.1 |
| First Student, Inc. | Danville | Bus operation, school and em | F | 10.1 |
| KKE | Kankakee | General freight trucking, lo | F | 10.1 |
| Mayfield Construction Shop and Offices | Champaign | Foundation, building, poured | F | 10.1 |
| Miner Elastomer Products Corporation | Geneva | Injection molding machinery | F | 10.1 |
| Fire Station 13 | Mount Prospect | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 10.1 |
| Kankakee Nursery Co. | Saint Anne | Nursery with tree production | F | 10.1 |
| S & S International, Inc. | Carol Stream | Metal products (e.g., bars, | F | 10.1 |
| D3 Morris Yard | Morris | Highway, Street, and Bridge | F | 10.1 |
| Addison, IL-Biolife 731 | Addison | Plasmapheresis Center | F | 10.1 |
| 2662-7048 | Chicago | Bus and Other Motor Vehicle | F | 10.1 |
| 161517-Chi-Ft Dearborn Sta | Chicago | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 10.1 |
| Cozzini Bros., Inc. | Des Plaines | Cutlery (e.g., knives, sciss | F | 10.1 |
| Sodexo at Argonne Food Service | Lemont | Food Service Contractors | F | 10.0 |
| 1005 - Alsip | Alsip | - | F | 10.0 |
| Central Transport - 606 606SH | Hillside | General Freight Trucking Lon | F | 10.0 |
| Morton Il | Morton | Other Grocery and Related Pr | F | 10.0 |
| Wm 1761 | Granite City | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 10.0 |
| 162094-Des Plaines Po | Des Plaines | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 10.0 |
| 2576-555 | Springfield | Psychiatric and Substance Ab | F | 10.0 |
| Heartland Manor Inc Nursing Center | Casey | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 10.0 |
| Heritage Health - Hoopeston | Hoopeston | Nursing homes | D | 10.0 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC - ORD2 | Channahon | General Warehousing and Stor | D | 10.0 |
| Wm 6228 | Vernon Hills | - | F | 10.0 |
| 4060 - Romeoville Il Ddc (Costco Logistics) Depot | Romeoville | General Warehousing & Storag | D | 10.0 |
| 4186-06899 | Bartonville | Dollar Stores | F | 10.0 |
| 1029 Lemont Fire Protection District | Lemont | - | F | 10.0 |
| Jansen Cable Construction, Inc. | Effingham | Low voltage electrical work | F | 10.0 |
| Highland Park High School | Highland Park | Cafeteria food services cont | F | 10.0 |
| Brookdale Niles | Niles | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 10.0 |
| Ambulance Service | Greenup | Ambulance services, air or g | F | 10.0 |
| Grand View Farms, LLC. | Laprairie | Hog and pig (including breed | F | 10.0 |
| 1953-4131 | Chicago | Local Public Transit | F | 10.0 |
| Bartlett Fire Protection District | Bartlett | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 10.0 |
| Portillo's Hot Dogs, LLC #910 | Addison | Meats and meat products (exc | F | 10.0 |
| East Dundee & Countryside Fire Protection District | East Dundee | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 10.0 |
| 202 ABC Supply Co., Inc | Crystal Lake | Wholesale Building Materials | F | 10.0 |
| 064 ABC Supply Co., Inc | Tinley Park | Wholesale Building Materials | F | 10.0 |
| El Milagro Inc. 21st Masa | Chicago | Tortillas manufacturing | F | 10.0 |
| TapeCase | Elk Grove Village | Industrial supplies (except | F | 10.0 |
| D2 Rockford Yard | Rockford | Highway, Street, and Bridge | F | 10.0 |
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.