Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

Ferris IL

Carthage, IL · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ferris IL runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Ferris IL: 0.7 TCR = 30% of Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ferris IL safety composite

Ferris IL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Ferris IL: 0.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 5.02× in 2024

Ferris IL's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.0 in 2020 to 3.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 5.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Carthage, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 30% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #7/110
  • PHOTO BWD 1404 DALLAS
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BWD 1404 DALLAS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ferris IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ferris IL averages 0.7 TCR (30% of the Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ferris IL TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Ferris IL falls in its industry

1,202 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 96% 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 #7 safest of 110 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesa employers in Illinois.

Ferris IL (28 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ferris IL
Ferris IL (28 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ferris IL has fewer employees than the Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers median and a lower 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 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IL · Carthage

1,202 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Carthage, 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 BWD 1404 DALLAS 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SGS Retail - Traver 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR (100) MK Location 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sparetime Supply, Inc. 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hancock County Senior Services 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR County Market #287 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bear Creek Genetics, LLC. 31 FTE
NAT-TCR USA Dalton GA Virgil 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR BCN HQ - The Commons 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR JSC Terminal LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR North Ohio Gastroenterology 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parma ID 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yuma CO 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marston MO 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tyrone Location 28 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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