Applicators, wood, manufacturing · Illinois

Dadant & Sons Inc

Hamilton, IL · ~54 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

Dadant & Sons Inc runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dadant & Sons Inc: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dadant & Sons Inc safety composite

Dadant & Sons Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−3.0

2017→2024

Dadant & Sons Inc injury rate improved

Dadant & Sons Inc's TCR fell 3.0 from 5.7 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=9.1 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=12.7 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Hamilton, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Livingston
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Livingston (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dadant & Sons Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dadant & Sons Inc averages 5.7 TCR (173% 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 & Sons Inc TCR series: 2017=5.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=9.1 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=12.7 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Dadant & Sons Inc falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #7 safest of 11 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in Illinois.

Dadant & Sons Inc (54 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 & Sons Inc
Dadant & Sons Inc (54 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Dadant & Sons Inc has more 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2022 12.7 10.6 6 0 0
2021 6.2 2.1 3 0 0
2020 9.1 7.3 5 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.7 3.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · IL · Hamilton

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 3 employers in Hamilton, 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 Livingston 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bishop Cabinets 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Traxx Corporation - Halex 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Four Stone Custom Mill & Casework LLC 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois Crop Improvement Association, Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Electric Cooperative 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenlink Energy Solutions, Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE POINTCORE Construction, LLC 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montebello HealthCare Center 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cores For You Inc 42 FTE
NAT-TCR Mt. Sterling Store 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Kittery Department of Public Works 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Daly Fabrication Facility 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynchburg Women's & Pediatric Health Services 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Highway 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blairsville Hatchery 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilkesboro Live Haul 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE P&C Construction 54 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, 2018, 2017. 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.