Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · Illinois

Carthage East Mill

Name: Carthage East Mill Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Carthage, IL · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.5
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Carthage East Mill runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Carthage East Mill: 4.5 TCR = 115% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carthage East Mill safety composite

Carthage East Mill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−0.8

2016→2017

Carthage East Mill injury rate improved

Carthage East Mill's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.9 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.9 · 2017=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Carthage, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 115% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #22/27
PHOTO Garner Production
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garner Production (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.5
Garner Product

4.5
Star Blends -

4.5
Ayrshire

4.5
Sioux City Pur

4.5

What this shows Carthage East Mill averages 4.5 TCR (115% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Carthage East Mill TCR series: 2016=4.9 · 2017=4.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Carthage East Mill falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 27 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Illinois.

Carthage East Mill (21 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Carthage East Mill has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m 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	4.1	0.0	1	0	0
2016	4.9	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IL · Carthage

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Carthage, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Garner Production	GARNER, IA	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Star Blends - Sparta	SPARTA, WI	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ayrshire	AYRSHIRE, IA	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sioux City Purina Feed Mill	SIOUX CITY, IA	4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Frank W. Lewis & Son Seed FArms, Inc	URSA	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	RAVENS LIVESTOCK & FARMS INC	MILFORD	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bushnell	BUSHNELL	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	21st Century Sow Farm	MASON	21 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Memorial Hospital	Carthage	274 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hancock County Senior Services	Carthage	53 FTE
CITY-NEAR	County Market #287	Carthage	44 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bear Creek Genetics, LLC.	Carthage	31 FTE
NAT-TCR	Smithfield - Cudahy Packaged	Cudahy, WI	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lakewood (Njlak)	Lakewood, NJ	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	UGN-Valparaiso	Valparaiso, IN	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hyster-Yale Sulligent Plant	Sulligent, AL	4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	4006 Mt. Aloysius College	Cresson, PA	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0774 - Albuquerque-Central, Nm	Albuquerque, NM	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0744 - Jasper, Al	Jasper, AL	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0725 - Easton, Pa	Easton, PA	21 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.

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