Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain · Illinois

Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc.

Elwood, IL · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc. runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain workplace, earning a grade D.

Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc.: 4.1 TCR = 187% of Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc. safety composite

Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc.: 2.9 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2024

Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.5 from 2.9 in 2023 to 5.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424510 · Elwood, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 187% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #35/53
  • PHOTO Bartlett Grain Compa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bartlett Grain Company, L.P. (CBS) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc. averages 4.1 TCR (187% of the Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain BLS benchmark).

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

Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc. TCR series: 2023=2.9 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc. falls in its industry

399 Grain elevators merchant whole establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 53 Grain elevators merchant whole employers in Illinois.

Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc. (33 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 10203040506070 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc.
Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc. (33 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Prairie Creek Grain Company, Inc. has more employees than the Grain elevators merchant wholesalers gra median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 5.4 5.4 2 0 0
2023 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424510 · IL · Elwood

399 Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 37 employers in Elwood, 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 Bartlett Grain Company, L.P. (CBS) 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Cooperative: Columbiana Feed (Wimer's) 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bartlett Grain Company, L.P. (FFX) 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frontier Ag Co., Inc. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Dwight 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Konos 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Farm Shop 208 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Will County Generating Station 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR HFT Chicago DC 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7078 715 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL-Elwood-Transloading 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7078 634 FTE
NAT-TCR Irish Road 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ncjac - Jacksonville Center 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Albuquerque 10034 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Panorama Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Essential Medical Supply, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burlington 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Threaded Fasteners, Inc. (Tampa 007) 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpha Sheet Metal Works, Inc 33 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.

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