Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing · Illinois

Lifeway- Niles

Niles, IL · ~81 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lifeway- Niles runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Lifeway- Niles: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lifeway- Niles safety composite

Lifeway- Niles scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Lifeway- Niles: 0.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2024

Lifeway- Niles's TCR rose 3.6 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Niles, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #1/20
  • PHOTO Membership
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Membership (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lifeway- Niles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lifeway- Niles averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lifeway- Niles TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Lifeway- Niles falls in its industry

457 Milk, fluid (except canned), m establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 20 Milk, fluid (except canned), m employers in Illinois.

Lifeway- Niles (81 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lifeway- Niles
Lifeway- Niles (81 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Lifeway- Niles has fewer employees than the Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 3.6 3.6 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · IL · Niles

457 Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 111 employers in Niles, 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 Membership 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0045-0045-08404 FAC-08404-CLACKAMAS-OR 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Menomonie WI 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corp Office 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred Intl Inc. Utica, IL 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edwards Power Station 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE 75E - Western S - IL Electric Ops 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western S - IL Electric Ops 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aerospace Business Groups : Niles 1,010 FTE
CITY-NEAR Airframe Systems : Niles 978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shure Incorporated 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3320 683 FTE
NAT-TCR Gage Products 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Coatings, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Flint Group 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Constructors LLC. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Windham House 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flanders Provision Company LLC 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Erie Beer Co 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Kahului 101 Airport Access Rd 81 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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