Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign

Champaign, IL · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign: 5.3 TCR = 242% of Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign safety composite

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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, Inc. - Champaign: 3.7 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2022

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign's TCR rose 3.3 from 3.7 in 2021 to 7.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Champaign, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.3 · 242% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #25/43
  • PHOTO 12 - Stoneboro
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 12 - Stoneboro (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign averages 5.3 TCR (242% of the Agricultural machinery and equipment 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, Inc. - Champaign TCR series: 2021=3.7 · 2022=7 · BLS 2.2

Where Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign falls in its industry

700 Agricultural machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 43 Agricultural machinery and equ employers in Illinois.

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign (35 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign
Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign (35 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Champaign has more employees than the Agricultural machinery and equipment mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2022 7.0 2.3 3 0 0
2021 3.7 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IL · Champaign

700 Agricultural machinery and equipment 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 12 - Stoneboro 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dwight 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goldman Equipment, LLC - Winnsboro 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coldwater 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dynegy Kendall Energy LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.J.M. Electric Cooperative, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Beloit Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPage Water Commission 35 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 0335 - Carolina Pr Whse 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamilton McEwn 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Atl Airport/Forest Park 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Le Moyne College-Dolphin Den 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clean Earth of Carteret 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Delaware facility) 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE M.D. Service Plumbing, Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Worthington 35 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.