Planting machines, farm-type, manufacturing · Illinois

Precision Planting - Birchwood

Morton, IL · ~17 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Precision Planting - Birchwood runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Planting machines, farm-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Precision Planting - Birchwood: 5.9 TCR = 180% of Planting machines, farm-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Precision Planting - Birchwood safety composite

Precision Planting - Birchwood scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2019→2020

Precision Planting - Birchwood injury rate improved

Precision Planting - Birchwood's TCR fell 1.9 from 6.9 in 2019 to 5.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.9 · 2020=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Morton, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 180% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #31/37
  • PHOTO Calsense
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Calsense (0.0 TCR gap)

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Precision Planting - Birchwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Precision Planting - Birchwood averages 5.9 TCR (180% of the Planting machines, farm-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Precision Planting - Birchwood TCR series: 2019=6.9 · 2020=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Precision Planting - Birchwood falls in its industry

433 Planting machines, farm-type, establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 37 Planting machines, farm-type, employers in Illinois.

Precision Planting - Birchwood (17 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Precision Planting - Birchwood
Precision Planting - Birchwood (17 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Precision Planting - Birchwood has fewer employees than the Planting machines, farm-type, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2020 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IL · Morton

433 Planting machines, farm-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 93 employers in Morton, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Calsense 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mathews Company 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stoltz 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR STEINBERG MFG. 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Neoga 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plymouth 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility - NWRWRF - Village of Fox Lake 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airoom Architect Holdings, LLC 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Parts Distribution Center 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR Matcor Metal Fabrication Morton 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Industries LLC 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5157 294 FTE
NAT-TCR Nexus Plastics, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nashboro Village 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Food Smart #6 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Diamond, Inc. 5.9 TCR

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. 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.