Powders, baking, manufacturing · Illinois

Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher

Beecher, IL · ~184 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Powders, baking, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher: 2.4 TCR = 58% of Powders, baking, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher safety composite

Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−0.4

2022→2024

Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher injury rate improved

Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher's TCR fell 0.4 from 2.3 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.3 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Beecher, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #13/39
  • PHOTO Balchem Corp
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Balchem Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher averages 2.4 TCR (58% of the Powders, baking, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher TCR series: 2022=2.3 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 4.1

Where Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher falls in its industry

335 Powders, baking, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 39 Powders, baking, manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher (184 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher
Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher (184 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher has more employees than the Powders, baking, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 1.9 0.5 4 0 0
2023 2.8 0.5 6 0 0
2022 2.3 0.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · IL · Beecher

335 Powders, baking, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 7 employers in Beecher, 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 Balchem Corp 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MSI Express - Hammond 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MycoTechnology 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Proven Partners Group 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Electric Ops 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division Street 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE O'Brien WRP 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abbey Paving & Sealcoating Co., Inc. 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dutch American Foods Inc.- Beecher 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beecher Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR CUBS CONSTRUCTION INC 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bernard Welding 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Coakley Company, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Smithfield Foods Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TMC Acquisition, LLC dba Tailor Made Compounding 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulfstream Aerospace 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brechbuhler Scales, Inc. 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1417 - Blackstone and Bullard 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0096 - Austin South Lamar 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0069 - Valley West 184 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.