Herbicides manufacturing · Illinois

Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant

Chicago Heights, IL · ~118 workers · 2 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 - Chicago Heights Plant runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Herbicides manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Herbicides manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant safety composite

Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

61/100

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
D 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant held a steady TCR band

Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.8 in 2023 to 0.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.8 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO Nufarm - Alsip
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nufarm - Alsip (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant 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 - Chicago Heights Plant TCR series: 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant 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 #6 safest of 11 Herbicides manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant (118 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 - Chicago Heights Plant
Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant (118 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Nufarm - Chicago Heights Plant 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 0.8 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325320 · IL · Chicago Heights

145 Herbicides manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, 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 - Alsip 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 Illiopolis, IL 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2508-Waterman, IL (Monsanto Co.) 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rock River Water Reclamation District 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Pipeline- IL 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR Ideal Industries Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Norcal Harvesting, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amcor Converter Films 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR JM Manufacturing Inc. DBA JM Eagle 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Howard Shockey & Sons 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horn USA 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crist Bros. Orchards, Inc. 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas Chiller Systems 118 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.