Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Mt. Sterling

Mt. Sterling, IL · ~27 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mt. Sterling runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Mt. Sterling: 3.6 TCR = 166% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mt. Sterling safety composite

Mt. Sterling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Mt. Sterling: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Mt. Sterling's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Mt. Sterling, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 166% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #53/110
  • PHOTO Verdegaal Brothers, …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Verdegaal Brothers, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mt. Sterling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mt. Sterling averages 3.6 TCR (166% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Mt. Sterling TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=7.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Mt. Sterling falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #53 safest of 110 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Illinois.

Mt. Sterling (27 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mt. Sterling
Mt. Sterling (27 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Mt. Sterling has fewer employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a higher 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
2024 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2017 8.4 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IL · Mt. Sterling

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Mt. Sterling, 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 Verdegaal Brothers, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eldon C. Stutsman 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 31793 3.6 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 Dot Foods, Inc.- MTS Dot 1,890 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dot Foods- MTS 1,642 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dot Transportation, Inc.- MTS DTI 692 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dot Transportation- MTS 530 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Nisswa 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1544 Little Egg Harbor SD 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Willmar Grow Out 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AllPro Restoration & Janitorial 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Revenue Security Warehouse 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Belle 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kahoka 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Downtown Container Park 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, 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.