Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · Illinois

Pacific Ethanol

Pekin, IL · ~258 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pacific Ethanol runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Pacific Ethanol: 4.9 TCR = 150% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pacific Ethanol safety composite

Pacific Ethanol scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Pacific Ethanol: 5.1 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2020

Pacific Ethanol's TCR rose 2.5 from 5.1 in 2018 to 7.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Pekin, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 150% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Poet Bioprocessing-…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~258 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Poet Bioprocessing-Chancellor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pacific Ethanol in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pacific Ethanol averages 4.9 TCR (150% of the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pacific Ethanol TCR series: 2018=5.1 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Pacific Ethanol falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in Illinois.

Pacific Ethanol (258 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pacific Ethanol
Pacific Ethanol (258 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Pacific Ethanol has more employees than the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2020 7.6 6.7 8 9 0
2019 2.1 1.0 4 2 0
2018 5.1 1.7 14 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IL · Pekin

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 84 employers in Pekin, 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 Poet Bioprocessing-Chancellor 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Andersons Marathon Holdings LLC - Clymers 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Andersons Clymers Ethanol LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big River Resources West Burlington, LLC 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elk Grove IL Large 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stepan Company Northbrook 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydro - Rosemont HQ 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penn Aluminum International LLC - Murphysboro, Il 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Correctional Institution - Staff and Inmates 1,380 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pekin Hospital 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR 603 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 603 351 FTE
NAT-TCR CNS International Ministries 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sendik's Food Market Elm Grove 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Distribution Point 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Autocast Inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE meijer 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer 208 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer store 126 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turner at Formosa Plastics Corporation Point Comfort TX 258 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: 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.