Applicators, wood, manufacturing · Illinois

Dadant and Sons Inc

Dallas City, IL · ~20 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dadant and Sons Inc runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dadant and Sons Inc: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dadant and Sons Inc safety composite

Dadant and Sons Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Dadant and Sons Inc: 0.0 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2024

Dadant and Sons Inc's TCR rose 7.4 from 0.0 in 2020 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Dallas City, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO Conover Mulch Plant
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Conover Mulch Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dadant and Sons Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dadant and Sons Inc averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dadant and Sons Inc TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=13.4 · 2023=7 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Dadant and Sons Inc falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in Illinois.

Dadant and Sons Inc (20 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dadant and Sons Inc
Dadant and Sons Inc (20 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Dadant and Sons Inc has fewer employees than the Applicators, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 7.4 7.4 1 0 0
2023 7.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 13.4 6.7 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · IL · Dallas City

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 3 employers in Dallas City, 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 Conover Mulch Plant 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR west virginia spilt rail 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UFP Nappanee, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWPI-Petersburg 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Ridge 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay Creek 4 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deer Run 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand View Farms, LLC. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adrian Facility 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wildcat Farms, LLC. 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Christian County Enterprises, Inc 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Complete Landsculpture of Texas Oklahoma office 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Obion County Growout 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold Medal Pools, LLC. 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jack in the Box #7211 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenville S 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbia NW 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nebraska Harvest Center 20 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. 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.