Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot

Mt. Sterling, IL · ~1,890 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot: 2.3 TCR = 104% of Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot safety composite

Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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.- MTS Dot: 1.9 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2021

Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot's TCR rose 1.0 from 1.9 in 2019 to 2.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Mt. Sterling, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 104% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #18/78
  • PHOTO Dot Foods, Inc. Camb…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 132 inj
  • SIZE ~1,890 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dot Foods, Inc. Cambridge City, IN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot averages 2.3 TCR (104% of the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot TCR series: 2019=1.9 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=2.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot falls in its industry

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merch establishments

Safer than 86% 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 #18 safest of 78 Groceries, general-line, merch employers in Illinois.

Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot (1,890 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot
Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot (1,890 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot has more employees than the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholes 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
2021 2.8 2.1 59 0 0
2020 2.1 1.3 38 2 0
2019 1.9 1.3 35 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IL · Mt. Sterling

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Mt. 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 Dot Foods, Inc. Cambridge City, IN 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CS Wholesale Grocers : Baldwin, FL (GDC) 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cordialsa USA - Florida 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kauai 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Advocate Condell Medical Center 1,903 FTE
STATE-SIZE Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. 1,904 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4701-V720P 1,860 FTE
STATE-SIZE SwedishAmerican Hospital 1,855 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dot Foods- MTS 1,642 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dot Transportation, Inc.- MTS DTI 692 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dot Transportation- MTS 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dot Foods- Dot West Offices 183 FTE
NAT-TCR Follmer Development Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Frohring Building 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR First Mile Square 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Division Demopolis Crew Headquarters 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - TUS1 1,890 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piedmont Columbus Midtown Hospital 1,890 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garney Holding Company 1,890 FTE
NAT-SIZE HCA Florida Memorial Hospital 1,889 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.