Pesticides, agricultural, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Dakota Coop

Dakota, IL · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dakota Coop runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pesticides, agricultural, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Dakota Coop: 2.5 TCR = 113% of Pesticides, agricultural, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakota Coop safety composite

Dakota Coop scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

Dakota Coop held a steady TCR band

Dakota Coop's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=9.9 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Dakota, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 113% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/110
  • PHOTO Main Office
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dakota Coop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakota Coop averages 2.5 TCR (113% of the Pesticides, agricultural, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Dakota Coop TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=9.9 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Dakota Coop falls in its industry

1,202 Pesticides, agricultural, merc establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #35 safest of 110 Pesticides, agricultural, merc employers in Illinois.

Dakota Coop (20 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dakota Coop
Dakota Coop (20 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Dakota Coop has fewer employees than the Pesticides, agricultural, merchant whole median and a lower 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 9.9 9.9 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IL · Dakota

1,202 Pesticides, agricultural, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 3 employers in Dakota, 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 Main Office 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SGS Retail - Umatilla 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot Company-SGS Ballico 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aurora Cooperative - Grant Agronomy 2.5 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 Berner Foods - Dakota 728 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLACKHAWK TRANSPORT BERNER 35 FTE
NAT-TCR WTLYN 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR District 35 Probation and Parole (Manassas) 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Van Hook Service Company Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer inc - store 56 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Whitton Container 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaman's Art Shoppes, Inc. CZ 74 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Slakey Brothers Inc (13) 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE AH4R - Columbus 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.