Casein, dry and wet, manufacturing · Illinois

Erie Foods International North plant

Erie, IL · ~21 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Erie Foods International North plant runs at 245% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Casein, dry and wet, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Erie Foods International North plant: 8.1 TCR = 245% of Casein, dry and wet, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Erie Foods International North plant safety composite

Erie Foods International North plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

−18.7

2020→2024

Erie Foods International North plant injury rate improved

Erie Foods International North plant's TCR fell 18.7 from 18.7 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 18.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=18.7 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=13.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · Erie, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 245% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/16
  • PHOTO Agropur-Nicollet Foo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agropur-Nicollet Food Ingredients (0.0 TCR gap)

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Erie Foods International North plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Erie Foods International North plant averages 8.1 TCR (245% of the Casein, dry and wet, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Erie Foods International North plant TCR series: 2020=18.7 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=13.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Erie Foods International North plant falls in its industry

185 Casein, dry and wet, manufactu establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 16 Casein, dry and wet, manufactu employers in Illinois.

Erie Foods International North plant (21 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Erie Foods International North plant
Erie Foods International North plant (21 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Erie Foods International North plant has fewer employees than the Casein, dry and wet, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 13.5 9.0 3 0 0
2021 8.2 4.1 1 1 0
2020 18.7 18.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · IL · Erie

185 Casein, dry and wet, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 4 employers in Erie, 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 Agropur-Nicollet Food Ingredients 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agropur-Le Sueur Food Ingredients 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tova Industries 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medford Maple Island 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frank W. Lewis & Son Seed FArms, Inc 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE RAVENS LIVESTOCK & FARMS INC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bushnell 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 21st Century Sow Farm 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deines-Nitz Solutions 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Erie Fire Department 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Erie Ambulance Service 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Auto Transport Group, LC 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR West Central 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Livermore Outlet #416 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Keyser 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Powers of Mississippi- Metairie 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adams Outdoor Advertising 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE RiverRun Press Inc 21 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.