Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing · Illinois

Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co

Taylorville, IL · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co: 4.8 TCR = 146% of Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co safety composite

Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2022→2023

Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co injury rate improved

Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co's TCR fell 1.0 from 5.3 in 2022 to 4.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.3 · 2023=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Taylorville, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/17
  • PHOTO Koss Industrial, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Koss Industrial, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co averages 4.8 TCR (146% of the Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co TCR series: 2022=5.3 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co falls in its industry

215 Bakery machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 17 Bakery machinery and equipment employers in Illinois.

Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co (37 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co
Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co (37 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Design Corrugating Co/Design Manufacturing and Equipment Co has fewer employees than the Bakery machinery and equipment manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.3 2.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · IL · Taylorville

215 Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 33 employers in Taylorville, 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 Koss Industrial, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2023 Eirich Machines Establishment 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hansaloy Corporation 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paragon International 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curtis Orchard Ltd 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscola 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Seed Farms, Inc. - Ursa 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Fleet Facility 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taylorville Memorial Hospital 318 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taylorville CUSD #3 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 343 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR 343 265 FTE
NAT-TCR Extreme Excavating 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - Plano 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashland AHQ 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vidor 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE VRS Pittsburgh, PA 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niehoff Endex North America Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bashas 027 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City 132 37 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.