Flour Milling · Massachusetts

Ardent Mills Ayer

Ayer, MA · ~33 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 Ayer runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flour Milling workplace, earning a grade C.

Ardent Mills Ayer: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Flour Milling BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ardent Mills Ayer safety composite

Ardent Mills Ayer scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ardent Mills Ayer: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Ardent Mills Ayer's TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Ayer, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P56
  • PHOTO Agricor Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agricor Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ardent Mills Ayer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ardent Mills Ayer averages 2.9 TCR (88% 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 Ayer TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=3 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ardent Mills Ayer falls in its industry

209 Flour Milling establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ardent Mills Ayer (33 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 Ayer
Ardent Mills Ayer (33 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 Ayer has fewer 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 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.9 3.0 2 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · MA · Ayer

209 Flour Milling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 29 employers in Ayer, MA · 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 Agricor Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Foods Operating Company, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mennel Milling Roanoke 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardent Mills San Bernardino 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green City Growers 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Good Chemistry - Holliston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Boston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTH ADAMS-MA27 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nashoba Valley Medical Center 523 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catania Spagna Corporation 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Epic Enterprises, Inc. 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR CPF-NEHF, Inc. 176 FTE
NAT-TCR Carondelet St Mary'S 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Facility 549 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Marc Glassman Inc 36ST 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Gas Ops 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Premier Window Cleaning 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Civic Construction Company, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE B M Roofing, LLC. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Detroit 33 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.