Ethanol Plant · Tennessee

Green Plains Obion LLC

Rives, TN · ~64 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Green Plains Obion LLC runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ethanol Plant workplace, earning a grade C.

Green Plains Obion LLC: 3.6 TCR = 110% of Ethanol Plant BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Green Plains Obion LLC safety composite

Green Plains Obion LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

Green Plains Obion LLC: 1.6 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2024

Green Plains Obion LLC's TCR rose 2.2 from 1.6 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Rives, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 110% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK P41
  • PHOTO Central Indiana Etha…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Indiana Ethanol, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Green Plains Obion LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Green Plains Obion LLC averages 3.6 TCR (110% of the Ethanol Plant BLS benchmark).

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

Green Plains Obion LLC TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Green Plains Obion LLC falls in its industry

228 Ethanol Plant establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Green Plains Obion LLC (64 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Green Plains Obion LLC
Green Plains Obion LLC (64 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Green Plains Obion LLC has more employees than the Ethanol Plant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 3.8 1.3 3 0 0
2023 2.8 0.0 2 0 0
2022 3.2 0.0 2 0 0
2021 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2019 6.7 3.3 4 0 0
2018 4.8 3.2 3 0 0
2017 4.7 4.7 3 0 0
2016 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · TN · Rives

228 Ethanol Plant employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 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 Central Indiana Ethanol, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marquis Energy-Wisconsin, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Ethanol, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highwater Ethanol, LLC 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alabama GP Cleanout Department 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middle TN Electric (Murfreesboro Office) 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blaine Construction Corporation 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction Management Company 64 FTE
NAT-TCR G & J Contracting, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Corrections 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR American Excelsior Company Arlington 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Marshfield 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE KY - Carrollton 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE MTS Manufacturing 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Market 198 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Market 131 64 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.