Beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy based · Illinois

Crest Foods Co., Inc.

Ashton, IL · ~704 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Crest Foods Co., Inc. runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy based workplace, earning a grade D.

Crest Foods Co., Inc.: 5.7 TCR = 172% of Beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy based BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Crest Foods Co., Inc. safety composite

Crest Foods Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Crest Foods Co., Inc.: 5.1 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

Crest Foods Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 2.0 from 5.1 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · Ashton, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 172% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #11/16
  • PHOTO O-AT-KA Milk Product…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 265 inj
  • SIZE ~704 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: O-AT-KA Milk Products LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Crest Foods Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Crest Foods Co., Inc. averages 5.7 TCR (172% of the Beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy based BLS benchmark).

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

Crest Foods Co., Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=3.7 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Crest Foods Co., Inc. falls in its industry

185 Beverages, dietary, dairy and establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #11 safest of 16 Beverages, dietary, dairy and employers in Illinois.

Crest Foods Co., Inc. (704 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Crest Foods Co., Inc.
Crest Foods Co., Inc. (704 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Crest Foods Co., Inc. has more employees than the Beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy b 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
2024 7.1 3.1 32 11 0
2023 7.2 3.0 37 4 0
2022 5.5 1.4 22 10 0
2021 5.6 1.5 33 0 0
2020 6.8 1.1 50 0 0
2019 4.5 2.0 32 0 0
2017 3.7 0.8 23 1 0
2016 5.1 2.0 36 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · IL · Ashton

185 Beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy based employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 3 employers in Ashton, 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 O-AT-KA Milk Products LLC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR HP Hood, LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Albany, MN 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CoreFX Ingredients 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE LSC Communications 704 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1855-ILARL284 704 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill Mechanical Corp 703 FTE
STATE-SIZE VCNA Prairie LLC 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2502-Ashton, IL (Monsanto Co.) 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2502-Ashton, IL 46 FTE
NAT-TCR R.J. LoCicero Corp 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR S09979 - Phoenix Training Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Medical City Alliance 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Flexible Materials Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Honeywell Intelligrated Mason 704 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MSP8 704 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bronx 704 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rent the Runway 704 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, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.