Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Gibson City

Gibson City, IL · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Gibson City runs at 410% 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. - Gibson City: 9.0 TCR = 410% of Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Gibson City safety composite

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Gibson City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2019→2022

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Gibson City injury rate improved

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Gibson City's TCR fell 4.5 from 11.9 in 2019 to 7.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=11.9 · 2021=7.7 · 2022=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Gibson City, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 410% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #38/43
  • PHOTO Sioux Center
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sioux Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Gibson City 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. - Gibson City averages 9.0 TCR (410% 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. - Gibson City TCR series: 2019=11.9 · 2021=7.7 · 2022=7.4 · BLS 2.2

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

700 Agricultural machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #38 safest of 43 Agricultural machinery and equ employers in Illinois.

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Gibson City (23 employees, TCR 9.0) 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. - Gibson City
Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Gibson City (23 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Birkey'S Farm Store, Inc. - Gibson City has fewer 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 7.4 0.0 2 0 0
2021 7.7 3.9 2 0 0
2019 11.9 7.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IL · Gibson City

700 Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 23 employers in Gibson City, 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 Sioux Center 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turf Star, Inc.- Rancho Cordova 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mcdonough GA 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 05-Bingham Equipment Company - Buckeye, AZ 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gibson Area Hospital 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gibson Area Hospital & Health Services 753 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Food Solutions 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR RhinoAG 176 FTE
NAT-TCR Beecher 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Garage Location 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bloomfield HomeGoods DC 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ABLE, Inc 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pinewood Hills 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nouveau Marc 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summerfield Estates 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE TMS Gallatin 23 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.