General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Dot Foods- MTS

Mt. Sterling, IL · ~1,642 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dot Foods- MTS runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Dot Foods- MTS: 2.1 TCR = 95% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dot Foods- MTS safety composite

Dot Foods- MTS scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Dot Foods- MTS held a steady TCR band

Dot Foods- MTS's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.0 in 2017 to 2.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.0 · 2018=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Mt. Sterling, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #16/78
  • PHOTO Benjamin Foods Hatboro
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~1,642 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Benjamin Foods Hatboro (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dot Foods- MTS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dot Foods- MTS averages 2.1 TCR (95% 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- MTS TCR series: 2017=2 · 2018=2.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Dot Foods- MTS falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 88% 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 #16 safest of 78 General-line groceries merchan employers in Illinois.

Dot Foods- MTS (1,642 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dot Foods- MTS
Dot Foods- MTS (1,642 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Dot Foods- MTS 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
2018 2.1 1.1 35 2 0
2017 2.0 1.1 34 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IL · Mt. Sterling

1,651 General-line groceries 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 Benjamin Foods Hatboro 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greensboro Sales & DSD Facility 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUNWEST 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dot Foods, Inc.- AZ 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE PALATINE (ILPAL) 1,639 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3842 - UDC-DeKalb 1,635 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7930 SOUTH HOLLAND PCS 1,650 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Monmouth 1,656 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot 1,890 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 Eastside Cluster 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Maintenance of Arkansas, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MS - San Diego, CA - 1SNCA 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 100 - Muncy 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Drake University 1,642 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2573-MN051 1,643 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airbus Mobile Manufacturing Site 1,643 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trenton Board of Education 1,641 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.