Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Browns plant

Browns, IL · ~26 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Browns plant runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Browns plant: 3.0 TCR = 135% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Browns plant safety composite

Browns plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Browns plant: 3.1 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2023

Browns plant's TCR rose 0.5 from 3.1 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Browns, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.0 · 135% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #38/110
  • PHOTO Willard Agri-Service…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Willard Agri-Service of Frederick, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Browns plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Browns plant averages 3.0 TCR (135% 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

Browns plant TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2018=3.5 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Browns plant falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #38 safest of 110 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Illinois.

Browns plant (26 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Browns plant
Browns plant (26 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Browns plant has fewer employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers median and a lower 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
2023 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.5 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2016 3.1 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IL · Browns

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 3 employers in Browns, 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 Willard Agri-Service of Frederick, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71406 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carrollton Main 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers Win Coop (Houston) 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rock River - Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill 'N Dale Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Generation 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gavilon Grain - Browns West, IL 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Browns Fire Department 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Epiroc Drilling Solutions LLC - Allen 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Penn Delco School Dis* 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-021-Vincennes ( RK-021 ) 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parts Authority Bronx Warehouse 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE McCoys Building Supply- Midlothian 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cottages Florence, LLC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jim Carpenter Company 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henry Schein - MNMIN 26 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2016. 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.