Dry ice (i.e., solid carbon dioxide) manufacturing · Illinois

Pekin Dry Ice Plant

Pekin, IL · ~61 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pekin Dry Ice Plant runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dry ice (i.e., solid carbon dioxide) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Pekin Dry Ice Plant: 2.2 TCR = 67% of Dry ice (i.e., solid carbon dioxide) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pekin Dry Ice Plant safety composite

Pekin Dry Ice Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Pekin Dry Ice Plant: 1.5 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2024

Pekin Dry Ice Plant's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.5 in 2021 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325120 · Pekin, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 67% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #9/18
  • PHOTO Denison Dry Ice Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denison Dry Ice Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pekin Dry Ice Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pekin Dry Ice Plant averages 2.2 TCR (67% of the Dry ice (i.e., solid carbon dioxide) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pekin Dry Ice Plant TCR series: 2021=1.5 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Pekin Dry Ice Plant falls in its industry

295 Dry ice (i.e., solid carbon di establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 18 Dry ice (i.e., solid carbon di employers in Illinois.

Pekin Dry Ice Plant (61 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pekin Dry Ice Plant
Pekin Dry Ice Plant (61 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Pekin Dry Ice Plant has more employees than the Dry ice (i.e., solid carbon dioxide) man median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2022 3.1 1.6 2 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · IL · Pekin

295 Dry ice (i.e., solid carbon dioxide) 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 Denison Dry Ice Plant 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Praxair Ashtabula 934 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde 765 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albuquerque ASU and Packaged Gas Plant 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Goodmark Nurseries LLC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2505-Mason City, IL (Monsanto Co.) 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Springfield 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Tech - Engineering 61 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 Roofcare Service Center, LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dakota County Lumber Co. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Franklin Water Treatment - Mesa 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pillar Electric Group, L.P. 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Beatrice Dry Ice Plant 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Master Manufacturing Group 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jefferson Houses 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5525 - Albany 61 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.

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

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