Flowers merchant wholesalers · Illinois

PanAmerican Seed Elburn

Elburn, IL · ~63 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PanAmerican Seed Elburn runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Flowers merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

PanAmerican Seed Elburn: 4.6 TCR = 210% of Flowers merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PanAmerican Seed Elburn safety composite

PanAmerican Seed Elburn scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

PanAmerican Seed Elburn: 2.8 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2024

PanAmerican Seed Elburn's TCR rose 2.3 from 2.8 in 2021 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424930 · Elburn, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 210% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO 14-GA
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 14-GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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PanAmerican Seed Elburn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PanAmerican Seed Elburn averages 4.6 TCR (210% of the Flowers merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

PanAmerican Seed Elburn TCR series: 2021=2.8 · 2022=8 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 2.2

Where PanAmerican Seed Elburn falls in its industry

185 Flowers merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

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 15 Flowers merchant wholesalers employers in Illinois.

PanAmerican Seed Elburn (63 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate PanAmerican Seed Elburn
PanAmerican Seed Elburn (63 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7

PanAmerican Seed Elburn has more employees than the Flowers merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.7. 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 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2022 8.0 5.3 3 0 0
2021 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424930 · IL · Elburn

185 Flowers merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 17 employers in Elburn, 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 14-GA 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell Nursery - Paris 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Countryside Nursery 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 07-HUNTSVILLE 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waterman, IL-STC 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hinsdale Nurseries, Inc. Plano 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE 40L - IL Relay & Ops 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water/Public Works, Public Utiities 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Electric Conduit Construction Company 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR ICC Group Inc. 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03347 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-03347 FAC-03347-ELBURN-IL 133 FTE
NAT-TCR Case Farms Goldsboro Garage 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin Sprocket & Gear 31 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Allendale Operator LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CS Bay Village LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maintenance & Management Associates, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cascade 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE 06500 - Carolina Art & Frame 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bullfrog Dairy 63 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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