Food service contractors, cafeteria · Illinois

Liberty Food Service - Beardstown

Beardstown, IL · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Liberty Food Service - Beardstown runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Food service contractors, cafeteria workplace, earning a grade B.

Liberty Food Service - Beardstown: 1.5 TCR = 51% of Food service contractors, cafeteria BLS 3.0 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Liberty Food Service - Beardstown safety composite

Liberty Food Service - Beardstown scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Liberty Food Service - Beardstown: 0.0 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 3.99× in 2019

Liberty Food Service - Beardstown's TCR rose 6.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 3.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Beardstown, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 51% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #61/364
  • PHOTO Takeda Pharmaceutical
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Takeda Pharmaceutical (0.0 TCR gap)

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Liberty Food Service - Beardstown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Liberty Food Service - Beardstown averages 1.5 TCR (51% of the Food service contractors, cafeteria BLS benchmark).

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

Liberty Food Service - Beardstown TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.1 · BLS 3.0

Where Liberty Food Service - Beardstown falls in its industry

6,952 Food service contractors, cafe establishments

Safer than 83% 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 #61 safest of 364 Food service contractors, cafe employers in Illinois.

Liberty Food Service - Beardstown (23 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Liberty Food Service - Beardstown
Liberty Food Service - Beardstown (23 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Liberty Food Service - Beardstown has fewer employees than the Food service contractors, cafeteria 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
2019 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IL · Beardstown

6,952 Food service contractors, cafeteria employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 17 employers in Beardstown, 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 Takeda Pharmaceutical 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beyond Catering & Events 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7581-PDLLC-MARIETTA COLLEGE 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT WS NORTH FULTON HOSPITAL 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS Swift Pork Company 1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swift Pork 1,781 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI - 0063 JBS USA - Beardstown 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1451 157 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0021 0296 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Muncy Corporation 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0045 8277 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Toms River, NJ CCIT 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE NICKLES-TOLEDO 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airgas Specialty Products - Donora 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arby's 5683 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arby's 7601 23 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: 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.