Cheese, cottage, manufacturing · Illinois

Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon

Dixon, IL · ~149 workers · 2 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

Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese, cottage, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Cheese, cottage, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon safety composite

Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−2.0

2021→2024

Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon injury rate improved

Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon's TCR fell 2.0 from 4.4 in 2021 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.4 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Dixon, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #4/20
  • PHOTO DFA FLUID - CITY OF …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFA FLUID - CITY OF INDUSTRY CA-SOUTH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Cheese, cottage, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon TCR series: 2021=4.4 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon falls in its industry

457 Cheese, cottage, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 20 Cheese, cottage, manufacturin employers in Illinois.

Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon (149 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon
Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon (149 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Bay Valley Foods, LLC Dixon has more employees than the Cheese, cottage, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 2.4 1.8 4 0 0
2021 4.4 0.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · IL · Dixon

457 Cheese, cottage, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 50 employers in Dixon, 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 DFA FLUID - CITY OF INDUSTRY CA-SOUTH 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lafayette Facility 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meadow Gold Boise - Boise 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fluid Milk Dairy 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mount Prospect 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plocher Construction Company 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Broeren Russo Construction, Inc. 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Regional Office - Larson 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raynor Garage Doors 541 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5399 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5399 327 FTE
NAT-TCR Fleenor Paper Company 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dmi Paving & Sealcoating 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ABS Global - Leeds 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Tiffin Hospital 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pinch Flatbed Houston 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE HVAMA01 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Medical Center - EVS 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teledyne Marine Systems 149 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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