Flour Milling · Illinois

Ardent Mills Alton

Alton, IL · ~99 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ardent Mills Alton runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flour Milling workplace, earning a grade C.

Ardent Mills Alton: 2.9 TCR = 89% of Flour Milling BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ardent Mills Alton safety composite

Ardent Mills Alton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2020→2024

Ardent Mills Alton injury rate improved

Ardent Mills Alton's TCR fell 1.8 from 2.7 in 2020 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.7 · 2021=6.3 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Alton, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #6/13
  • PHOTO Chicago Flour Mill
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chicago Flour Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ardent Mills Alton in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Ardent Mills Alton averages 2.9 TCR (89% of the Flour Milling BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Ardent Mills Alton TCR series: 2020=2.7 · 2021=6.3 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Ardent Mills Alton falls in its industry

209 Flour Milling establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 13 Flour Milling employers in Illinois.

Ardent Mills Alton (99 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ardent Mills Alton
Ardent Mills Alton (99 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ardent Mills Alton has more employees than the Flour Milling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 1.8 0.9 2 0 0
2021 6.3 5.4 7 0 0
2020 2.7 0.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · IL · Alton

209 Flour Milling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 75 employers in Alton, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Chicago Flour Mill 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agricor Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Foods Operating Company, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardent Mills Ayer 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southern Illinois Power Cooperative 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landmarc Environmental Systems, LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Granite Construction Company - Illinois Region 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industrial Fence, Inc. 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Challenge Unlimited 921 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alton Community Unit School District No. 11 845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alton Memorial Hospital 762 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Anthony's Health Center 547 FTE
NAT-TCR 2693 Hornbacher's Village West, Fargo, ND 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 57206 Chemung 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Beran Concrete, Inc 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Building Associates 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 021 - Pinole Ca 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Noble-X 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2752 Tadych's Marketplace Foods - Iron Mountain, MI 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dearborn Surgery Center LLC 99 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.