Flour Milling · Illinois

Ardent Mills Chester

Chester, IL · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ardent Mills Chester runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flour Milling workplace, earning a grade C.

Ardent Mills Chester: 3.4 TCR = 103% of Flour Milling BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ardent Mills Chester safety composite

Ardent Mills Chester scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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 Chester: 0.0 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.95× in 2024

Ardent Mills Chester's TCR rose 6.6 from 0.0 in 2020 to 6.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Chester, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 103% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #8/13
  • PHOTO Miller Milling Compa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Miller Milling Company - Saginaw (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ardent Mills Chester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ardent Mills Chester averages 3.4 TCR (103% 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 Chester TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ardent Mills Chester falls in its industry

209 Flour Milling establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #8 safest of 13 Flour Milling employers in Illinois.

Ardent Mills Chester (25 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Chester
Ardent Mills Chester (25 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ardent Mills Chester has fewer employees than the Flour Milling median and a higher 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 6.6 6.6 2 0 0
2023 6.9 6.9 1 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · IL · Chester

209 Flour Milling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Chester, 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 Miller Milling Company - Saginaw 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR To Your Health Sprouted Flour Co. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Panhandle Milling Dawn 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Flour Mills 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Emerald Mound Lebanon Fire Department 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steve Piper and Sons, Inc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Meter Services North 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester Mental Health Center 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester Cake 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Randolph Memorial Hospital District 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 352 95 FTE
NAT-TCR Volunteer Electric 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR D13 Des Moines 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cadiz Crude Fleet 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Colton 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE AL - Montgomery 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6466 Hwy 19 Athens Tx 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenville Sc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bulldog Rack Holding Co. 25 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.