Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers · Illinois

Lowder Main

Waverly, IL · ~27 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowder Main runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowder Main: 3.9 TCR = 175% of Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowder Main safety composite

Lowder Main scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Lowder Main: 3.9 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.76× in 2024

Lowder Main's TCR rose 6.3 from 3.9 in 2016 to 10.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424510 · Waverly, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 175% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #33/53
  • PHOTO Atkinson Grain & Fer…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atkinson Grain & Fertilizer, Inc. - Atkinson Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowder Main in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowder Main averages 3.9 TCR (175% of the Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Lowder Main TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Lowder Main falls in its industry

399 Grain and Field Bean Merchant establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 53 Grain and Field Bean Merchant employers in Illinois.

Lowder Main (27 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 10203040506070 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lowder Main
Lowder Main (27 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Lowder Main has fewer employees than the Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesaler median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 10.2 6.8 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2020 6.3 3.1 2 0 0
2019 6.1 6.1 2 0 0
2018 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424510 · IL · Waverly

399 Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 3 employers in Waverly, 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 Atkinson Grain & Fertilizer, Inc. - Atkinson Location 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Readfield Grain/Liquid 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Cooperative 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemung 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pizzo Native Plant Nursery, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE C070 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-R&D 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloomington 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scoular Waverly 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waverly Retail Plant 16 FTE
NAT-TCR ELG Metals - Port Vue 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ADD Lumber, Irving NY 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ingram Readymix, Inc.-Sa3 #21 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pembroke Family Practice 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Etw Cambridge 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Concrete 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Works - Sanitation 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mallard Ready Mix 27 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.