General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Illinois

M. J. Kellner Co., Inc.

Springfield, IL · ~105 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

M. J. Kellner Co., Inc. runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

M. J. Kellner Co., Inc.: 5.9 TCR = 267% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

M. J. Kellner Co., Inc. safety composite

M. J. Kellner Co., Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

M. J. Kellner Co., Inc.: 2.8 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2024

M. J. Kellner Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 6.1 from 2.8 in 2023 to 8.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Springfield, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.9 · 267% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #46/78
  • PHOTO Sofo Foods of Ohio
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sofo Foods of Ohio (0.0 TCR gap)

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M. J. Kellner Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows M. J. Kellner Co., Inc. averages 5.9 TCR (267% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

M. J. Kellner Co., Inc. TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 2.2

Where M. J. Kellner Co., Inc. falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 78 General-line groceries merchan employers in Illinois.

M. J. Kellner Co., Inc. (105 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate M. J. Kellner Co., Inc.
M. J. Kellner Co., Inc. (105 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

M. J. Kellner Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 8.9 8.9 10 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IL · Springfield

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 311 employers in Springfield, 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 Sofo Foods of Ohio 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferraro Foods of New York, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vistar Liberty-AZ - 1061 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GLOBAL DISTRIBUTORS 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2099-Waterman, IL-STC (Monsanto Co.) 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Becknell Services LLC 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE G.M. Sipes Construction, Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay Valley Fooods 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center 4,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Memorial Hospital 3,837 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Clinic, LLP 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. John's Hospital 2,696 FTE
NAT-TCR ABF Packing LTD 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bb Bhf Stores, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Windom Wash LLC 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Haydon Bolts, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cql Mfg LLC 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lower Keys Medical Center 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chem Technologies, Ltd. 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clermont 105 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.