Corn starch manufacturing · Illinois

Argo Facility

Bedford Park, IL · ~383 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Argo Facility runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Corn starch manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Argo Facility: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Corn starch manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Argo Facility safety composite

Argo Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Argo Facility: 0.3 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2024

Argo Facility's TCR rose 2.2 from 0.3 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311221 · Bedford Park, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Cedar Rapids Dry Mill
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~383 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cedar Rapids Dry Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Argo Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Argo Facility averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Corn starch manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Argo Facility TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0.3 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=1 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Argo Facility falls in its industry

53 Corn starch manufacturing establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Corn starch manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Argo Facility (383 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Argo Facility
Argo Facility (383 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Argo Facility has more employees than the Corn starch manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 2.5 1.0 4 6 0
2023 1.0 0.8 4 0 0
2022 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2021 0.8 0.5 3 0 0
2020 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.9 0.7 4 0 0
2018 1.2 0.5 4 1 0
2017 1.2 0.7 5 0 0
2016 0.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311221 · IL · Bedford Park

53 Corn starch manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 140 employers in Bedford Park, 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 Cedar Rapids Dry Mill 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clinton Corn Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Eddyville 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Rapids Facility 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE GSI : Assumption 383 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 216 383 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILLPT - LOCKPORT 383 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berkeley School District 87 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDWPW9669 MDW - OPS 1,757 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILBED - BEDFORD PARK 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR BEDFORD PARK (ILBED) 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161546-SOUTH SUBURBAN IL P&DC 834 FTE
NAT-TCR Slater R&D 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 004/Eastern Mennonite University 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Manchester 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Asf 420 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE DynaTen 383 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics 383 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tampa - GMS, Himes, US Scouts 383 FTE
NAT-SIZE UMKokopelli921 383 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.