Chicago, Illinois · Home Health Care Services · NAICS 621610
8inspections
4citation items
$4,875current penalties
May 3, 2024last inspection
Help at Home has 8 OSHA inspections on record in Illinois, the first in 1998.
OSHA's last visit started on May 3, 2024 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Springfield.
Across those inspections OSHA issued 4 citation items: 1 repeat and 3 other-than-serious.
OSHA proposed $25,919 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $4,875, down 81%.
Most often, OSHA cited 1904.39, reporting deaths and severe injuries (2 items).
For context, across all health care employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $1,050. Help at Home averages $1,500 over 2 cited inspections in that time.
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
Help at Home also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 10 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
The Wage and Hour Division has 3 cases on it since 2015, with $2,054 in back wages owed to workers.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Illinois · latest 90 days of OSHA records
413employers cited
Get notified the morning OSHA posts each new citation in Illinois: the employer, the site address, the rules broken and the penalty.
Incident on Apr 26, 2024 (fatal): Employee dies after collapsing in restroom during client mee
At 8:30 a.m. on April 26, 2024, Employee #1 was meeting with a client for breakfast at IHOP when she went to the restroom and collapsed. Emergency services transported the employee to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. According to the Sangamon County Coroner, there was no evidence of trauma, and the cause of death was determined to be a hemorrhagic stroke, pulmonary edema, and plaque build-up on coronary arteries.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 345980866 OPENED MAY 25, 2022Closed
Monitoring · Partial · Safety · 11,000 employees at the site · Closed Sep 26, 2022
Incident on Dec 28, 2021: Employee incurs broken tooth, body bruises falling from car
At 10:30 a.m. on December 28, 2021, an employee was parking her car after dropping a client off at a grocery store. As the employee attempted to get out of her car, she slipped and fell striking her face and body on an unspecified surface. The employee incurred a fractured tooth and body contusions, requiring hospitalization.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 345945067 OPENED MAY 9, 2022Closed
Monitoring · Partial · Health · 243 employees at the site · Closed Sep 26, 2022
Incident on Feb 27, 2019: Employee breaks leg after slipping and falling on slippery s
At 11:00 a.m. on February 27, 2019, Employee #1 was walking from a client's home to where his vehicle was parked. The employee was walking on a hill which was soft due to snow melt. The employee slipped on soft mud and fell to the ground. The employee drove himself to nearest medical facility for evaluation. Later that afternoon, the employee was informed he had broken his leg and was transported to another medical facility via ambulance for surgery.
Incident on Jun 7, 2018: Employee fractures arm in fall down stairs
At 8:30 a.m. on June 7, 2018, Employee #1 was leaving a client's house. He tripped going down the stairs, and fractured his arm. The employee was hospitalized for his injury.
No citations from this inspection.
Inspection 341776698 OPENED SEP 1, 2016Closed
Referral · Partial · Safety · 1 employee at the site · Closed Dec 22, 2016
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Chicago site logged 3 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 1,379 workers: 0.4 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 2.2 for its industry. Those cases cost 165 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Chinatown
Chicago · 2025
1,379
3
2
0.4
2.2
Chatham
Chicago · 2025
1,201
0
0
0.0
2.2
Archer Heights
Chicago · 2025
893
2
2
0.4
2.2
Englewood
Chicago · 2025
753
0
0
0.0
2.2
East Side
Chicago · 2025
641
1
1
0.3
2.2
Carbondale site
Carbondale · 2025
677
17
5
5.7
2.2
Northwest Chicago
Chicago · 2025
483
1
1
0.4
2.2
Chicago Corporate
Chicago · 2024
5,964
2
1
0.1
2.2
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 10 reports on file, the 6 most recent shown.
Nov 21, 2025, Springfield: Hospitalization · fractures · knee(s)
An employee had been picking up items and then went to do the client's dishes. She was walking through the kitchen when both her knees gave out. She fell backward, striking the back of her head and both knees. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured knee.
Jan 13, 2024, Chicago: Hospitalization · fractures · leg(s) unspecified
An employee slipped and fell on ice sustaining fractures to both legs.
Jan 3, 2024, Springfield: Hospitalization · fractures · wrist(s)
On January 3, 2024, an employee was walking down the stairs outside of a client's home when she fell and fractured both wrists. The employee was hospitalized.
Jun 20, 2023, Chicago: Hospitalization · gunshot wounds · head and neck
An employee was in their car waiting to take a client to do laundry. The employee was attacked by carjackers and sustained two gunshot wounds to the left side of his face and neck.
Dec 28, 2021, Evanston: Hospitalization · fractures · tooth (teeth)
An employee dropped off a client in a parking lot. She slipped and fell in the lot after exiting her car. The employee sustained a broken tooth and contusions.
An employee was traveling to a client's house when they were robbed and shot in the back of the leg and in the right hand. The employee was hospitalized.
Wage and hour cases
Cases by the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division since 2015: unpaid minimum wage or overtime, child labor, family leave and more.
Period reviewed
Violations
Workers owed
Back wages
Penalties
Mar 23, 2022 to Mar 22, 2024
CHICAGO
6
6
$909
$0
Nov 15, 2015 to Nov 11, 2017
Chicago
3
2
$1,145
$0
Jan 1, 2016 to Nov 16, 2016
Chicago
11500
0
$0
$0
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
(2) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.
29 CFR 1904.39(b)(7)
(7) What if I don't learn about a reportable fatality, in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye right away? If you do not learn about a reportable fatality, in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye at the time it takes place, you must make the report to OSHA within the following time period after the fatality, in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye is reported to you or to any of your agent(s): Eight (8) hours for a fatality, and twenty-four (24) hours for an in-patient hospitalization, an amputation, or a loss of an eye.
(a) Basic requirement. When an authorized government representative asks for the records you keep under part 1904, you must provide copies of the records within four (4) business hours.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.
