Salad dressings manufacturing · Illinois

Plochman Inc

Manteno, IL · ~76 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plochman Inc runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Salad dressings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Plochman Inc: 5.1 TCR = 125% of Salad dressings manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plochman Inc safety composite

Plochman Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Plochman Inc: 3.7 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

Plochman Inc's TCR rose 4.4 from 3.7 in 2017 to 8.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Manteno, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 125% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Beaverton Foods
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beaverton Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plochman Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plochman Inc averages 5.1 TCR (125% of the Salad dressings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plochman Inc TCR series: 2017=3.7 · 2020=3.5 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 4.1

Where Plochman Inc falls in its industry

134 Salad dressings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

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 10 Salad dressings manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Plochman Inc (76 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Plochman Inc
Plochman Inc (76 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Plochman Inc has fewer employees than the Salad dressings manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 8.1 3.0 8 0 0
2020 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2017 3.7 3.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · IL · Manteno

134 Salad dressings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 23 employers in Manteno, 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 Beaverton Foods 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reed Food Technology 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Litehouse Foods Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zilks Plus Resources LLC 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rend Lake Conservancy District 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE CORE Construction Services of Illinois, Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville Headquarters 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keeley & Sons, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Urban Farmer LLC 401 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3495-11DA631 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL - Mars Chocolate 316 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nexus-Indian Oaks Family Healing 280 FTE
NAT-TCR Eder Flag Manufacturing Company Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Processing Plant 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dutch Valley Food Development 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR AGRA Construction 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Pinnacle 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayd LLC 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE KRB Machinery 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.U. Kevil Memorial Foundation 76 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, 2020, 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.