Herbicides manufacturing · Illinois

Nufarm - Alsip

Alsip, IL · ~100 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nufarm - Alsip runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Herbicides manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nufarm - Alsip: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Herbicides manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nufarm - Alsip safety composite

Nufarm - Alsip scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−0.6

2017→2024

Nufarm - Alsip injury rate improved

Nufarm - Alsip's TCR fell 0.6 from 0.6 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.6 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325320 · Alsip, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Nufarm - Chicago Hei…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nufarm - Alsip in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nufarm - Alsip averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Herbicides manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nufarm - Alsip TCR series: 2017=0.6 · 2023=2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Nufarm - Alsip falls in its industry

145 Herbicides manufacturing establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Herbicides manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Nufarm - Alsip (100 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nufarm - Alsip
Nufarm - Alsip (100 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Nufarm - Alsip has more employees than the Herbicides manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.0 0.7 3 0 0
2017 0.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325320 · IL · Alsip

145 Herbicides manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 117 employers in Alsip, 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 Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sergeant's Pet Care Products LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FMC Corporation - Wyoming, IL 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glenn A Wintemute Research Center 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE TCR SYSTEMS LLC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dealer Installation 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evans Electric 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rethink Electric LLC 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Menasha Packaging Company - Alsip 783 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1005 - Alsip 594 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alsip 388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Griffith Foods - Alsip 380 FTE
NAT-TCR Amcor Converter Films 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ideal Industries Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Norcal Harvesting, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR JM Manufacturing Inc. DBA JM Eagle 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE OptiPro Systems 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lackland 10706 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Runtal North America 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yorktown Heights 100 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, 2017. 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.