Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Best Cob

Rock Falls, IL · ~45 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Cob runs at 325% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Best Cob: 7.2 TCR = 325% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Cob safety composite

Best Cob scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Best Cob: 2.2 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 19.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

Best Cob's TCR rose 3.1 from 2.2 in 2019 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 19.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Rock Falls, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 325% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #92/110
  • PHOTO Bomgaars Supply,Inc.…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Basehor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Best Cob in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Cob averages 7.2 TCR (325% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Best Cob TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2020=19.6 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Best Cob falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #92 safest of 110 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Illinois.

Best Cob (45 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Best Cob
Best Cob (45 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Best Cob has more employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2023 6.9 6.9 3 0 0
2022 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2021 4.4 2.2 2 0 0
2020 19.6 9.8 8 2 0
2019 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IL · Rock Falls

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 22 employers in Rock Falls, 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 Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Basehor 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR New England, ND 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Zenith DC 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR EDGERTON 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1982.1-Stonington, IL-Mfg (Monsanto Co.) 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmer City 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE 91P - Distribution Operating - Decatur 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Sparta 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR IFH Group Inc 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR The IFH Group, Inc. 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 830 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR 830 102 FTE
NAT-TCR Point Blank Distributing Portland 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FLM002 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Town Hall 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Spokane WA 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hydro Tube Enterprises, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cenflex Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt (Converting Division Roanoke), LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowcountry Outpatient surgery Center 45 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. 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.