Sweet corn farming, field and seed production · Illinois

Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard

Harvard, IL · ~36 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sweet corn farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard: 8.5 TCR = 190% of Sweet corn farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard safety composite

Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard: 0.0 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard's TCR rose 8.1 from 0.0 in 2020 to 8.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Harvard, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.5 · 190% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK P19
  • PHOTO Midnight Harvest
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midnight Harvest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard averages 8.5 TCR (190% of the Sweet corn farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=10.9 · 2022=13.8 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard falls in its industry

331 Sweet corn farming, field and establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard (36 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard
Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard (36 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard has fewer employees than the Sweet corn farming, field and seed produ median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 8.1 8.1 4 0 0
2023 9.9 9.9 2 0 0
2022 13.8 11.5 6 0 0
2021 10.9 4.4 5 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · IL · Harvard

331 Sweet corn farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 26 employers in Harvard, 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 Midnight Harvest 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MFarms 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&W Quality Growers - Main Office 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CHI Greenhouse LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE MT ERIE COMPLEX -EST 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Malta 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Mt. Vernon 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard PetDine 397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pedigree Ovens Inc 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR True Value Company RDC - Harvard 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR True Value Harvard RDC 203 FTE
NAT-TCR Winston Homebuilders 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Casella Waste Systems - Salem 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Plains Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Emmet Williams Elementary School 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greenwood Metropolitan District - EFBF Facility 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Culver, OR 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bold Rock Cider - Mills River 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Manor 36 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.