Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Birkey's Farm Store

Champaign, IL · ~438 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birkey's Farm Store runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Birkey's Farm Store: 4.0 TCR = 183% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birkey's Farm Store safety composite

Birkey's Farm Store scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Birkey's Farm Store: 3.4 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2017

Birkey's Farm Store's TCR rose 1.3 from 3.4 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Champaign, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #59/110
  • PHOTO BRADLEY CALDWELL INC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~438 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BRADLEY CALDWELL INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birkey's Farm Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birkey's Farm Store averages 4.0 TCR (183% 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

Birkey's Farm Store TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=4.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Birkey's Farm Store falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #59 safest of 110 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Illinois.

Birkey's Farm Store (438 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Birkey's Farm Store
Birkey's Farm Store (438 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Birkey's Farm Store 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
2017 4.7 1.3 21 0 0
2016 3.4 1.8 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IL · Champaign

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 200 employers in Champaign, 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 BRADLEY CALDWELL INC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leaf River Ag Service 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt. Pleasant 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kilcoy Global Foods North America 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaGrange IL Engine Plant EMD 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHICAGO METRO 35TH ST 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZSST 438 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-CHAM 1,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz Company 1,088 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz Champaign 918 FTE
CITY-NEAR College Fresh 840 FTE
NAT-TCR Strength of Nature 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100019 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 4205 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Janesville Acoustics - Columbus 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Timber Blinds LLC 438 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lonestar-Atlanta 438 FTE
NAT-SIZE Imprivata, Inc. 438 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thomson Reuters - Rochester 438 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: 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.