General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling

Mount Sterling, IL · ~1,971 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling: 3.1 TCR = 141% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling safety composite

Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling: 2.5 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.5 in 2022 to 3.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Mount Sterling, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 141% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #25/78
  • PHOTO Hillandale Farms LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 190 inj
  • SIZE ~1,971 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hillandale Farms LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling averages 3.1 TCR (141% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling TCR series: 2022=2.5 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 78 General-line groceries merchan employers in Illinois.

Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling (1,971 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling
Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling (1,971 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling has more employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 3.7 2.2 74 1 0
2023 3.1 2.0 60 1 0
2022 2.5 1.6 56 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IL · Mount Sterling

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 3 employers in Mount Sterling, 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 Hillandale Farms LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sysco New Orleans 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOB - Leetsdale, PA 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transportation : Montgomery - Trans 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decatur Memorial Hospital 1,982 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital 1,958 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Consolidated School District 15 1,957 FTE
STATE-SIZE 92 - Archer Western Construction, LLC 1,954 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dot Transportation, Inc. Mt. Sterling 594 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mental Health Centers of Western Illinois 75 FTE
NAT-TCR Bayou Home Care LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Prong Bronson 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Thumb Plastics, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hahn & Clay Services ltd 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kent Hospital 1,971 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwest Hospital Center 1,970 FTE
NAT-SIZE NCH Corporation 2727 1,970 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lauberge Casino Resort 1,973 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. 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.