Hydroponic crop farming · Illinois

Cresco Labs - Lincoln

Lincoln, IL · ~192 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cresco Labs - Lincoln runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hydroponic crop farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Cresco Labs - Lincoln: 7.1 TCR = 157% of Hydroponic crop farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cresco Labs - Lincoln safety composite

Cresco Labs - Lincoln scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Cresco Labs - Lincoln: 0.0 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2024

Cresco Labs - Lincoln's TCR rose 10.4 from 0.0 in 2019 to 10.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Lincoln, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 157% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Nipomo
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 67 inj
  • SIZE ~192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nipomo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cresco Labs - Lincoln in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cresco Labs - Lincoln averages 7.1 TCR (157% of the Hydroponic crop farming BLS benchmark).

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

Cresco Labs - Lincoln TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=12.3 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Cresco Labs - Lincoln falls in its industry

251 Hydroponic crop farming establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Hydroponic crop farming employers in Illinois.

Cresco Labs - Lincoln (192 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cresco Labs - Lincoln
Cresco Labs - Lincoln (192 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Cresco Labs - Lincoln has more employees than the Hydroponic crop farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2024 10.4 7.9 14 7 0
2023 6.4 5.9 13 0 0
2022 6.3 5.9 15 0 0
2021 12.3 6.6 25 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · IL · Lincoln

251 Hydroponic crop farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 45 employers in Lincoln, 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 Nipomo 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenheart Farms, Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell Cultivation 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cresco Labs - Fall River 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE M-Bar-D 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE #1 roofing company 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILDIV 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Snack Foods, Inc. 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR LINCOLN IL 726 FTE
CITY-NEAR Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lincoln Memorial Hospital 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 199 293 FTE
NAT-TCR Genesee 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ValleyBaptMC-HarEVS 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Erie PA FXFE-ERI 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1065 - Rockwall 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE 622 - Sacramento 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milwaukee WI FXFE-MKE 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laredo TX FXFE-LRD 192 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.