Vegetable oils made from purchased oils · Illinois

Columbus Vegetable Oils

Des Plaines, IL · ~143 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbus Vegetable Oils runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Vegetable oils made from purchased oils workplace, earning a grade A.

Columbus Vegetable Oils: 0.6 TCR = 17% of Vegetable oils made from purchased oils BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbus Vegetable Oils safety composite

Columbus Vegetable Oils scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−77.9

2020→2023

Columbus Vegetable Oils injury rate improved

Columbus Vegetable Oils's TCR fell 77.9 from 78.4 in 2020 to 0.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 78.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=78.4 · 2023=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311225 · Des Plaines, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #1/13
  • PHOTO Valdosta Stratas Foods
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valdosta Stratas Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbus Vegetable Oils in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbus Vegetable Oils averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Vegetable oils made from purchased oils BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Columbus Vegetable Oils TCR series: 2020=78.4 · 2023=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Columbus Vegetable Oils falls in its industry

86 Vegetable oils made from purch establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 13 Vegetable oils made from purch employers in Illinois.

Columbus Vegetable Oils (143 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbus Vegetable Oils
Columbus Vegetable Oils (143 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Columbus Vegetable Oils has more employees than the Vegetable oils made from purchased oils median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 0.6 0.6 2 0 0
2020 78.4 78.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311225 · IL · Des Plaines

86 Vegetable oils made from purchased oils employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 174 employers in Des Plaines, 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 Valdosta Stratas Foods 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresno Stratas Foods 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dallas Stratas Foods 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Par-Way Manufacturing 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Halverson Construction Company 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quincy Oil Extraction 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Creative Contract Packaging 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR BASF Corporation - McIntosh Site 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Training & Simulation 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Centra Information Technology 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1196-Courtyard/Residence Richmond 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE NOV Fiber Glass Systems 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE E.H. Enterprises, LLC - DBA Pella Northland 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE McC Corporate Office 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conam Construction Company 143 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, 2020. 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.