Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Mt. Vernon

Mount Vernon, IL · ~38 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mt. Vernon runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Mt. Vernon: 0.5 TCR = 25% of Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mt. Vernon safety composite

Mt. Vernon scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2018→2024

Mt. Vernon injury rate improved

Mt. Vernon's TCR fell 1.1 from 1.1 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.1 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Mount Vernon, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/110
  • PHOTO ELIZABETHTOWN, PA LO…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ELIZABETHTOWN, PA LOCATION (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mt. Vernon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mt. Vernon averages 0.5 TCR (25% of the Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Mt. Vernon TCR series: 2018=1.1 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Mt. Vernon falls in its industry

1,202 Chemicals, agricultural, merch establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #6 safest of 110 Chemicals, agricultural, merch employers in Illinois.

Mt. Vernon (38 employees, TCR 0.5) 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. Vernon
Mt. Vernon (38 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Mt. Vernon has more employees than the Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholes 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IL · Mount Vernon

1,202 Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 41 employers in Mount Vernon, 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 ELIZABETHTOWN, PA LOCATION 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colon 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ag ProVision Kenansville NC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 37_41 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Gibson City, IL 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 629 - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freeport 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Tire Mt. Vernon 3,766 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Tire Mount Vernon IL. 3,509 FTE
CITY-NEAR Walgreens Distribution Center 1,345 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 224 340 FTE
NAT-TCR Spark Therapeutics, Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Adams Outdoor Advertising 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pruitt Tool & Supply Company 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Thunder Bay Community Health Service, Inc Hilman 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eastwood Machine, LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Plating Company - Humble 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Mall of America- ALM Bloomington, LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Welding and Machine Inc. 38 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. 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.