Freight forwarding · Illinois

RFC Sourcing Cobden

Cobden, IL · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RFC Sourcing Cobden runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Freight forwarding workplace, earning a grade A.

RFC Sourcing Cobden: 1.0 TCR = 22% of Freight forwarding BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RFC Sourcing Cobden safety composite

RFC Sourcing Cobden scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

RFC Sourcing Cobden: 0.0 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

RFC Sourcing Cobden's TCR rose 2.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 2.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488510 · Cobden, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/28
  • PHOTO Kuehne + Nagel Inc SAL
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kuehne + Nagel Inc SAL (0.0 TCR gap)

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RFC Sourcing Cobden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RFC Sourcing Cobden averages 1.0 TCR (22% of the Freight forwarding BLS benchmark).

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

RFC Sourcing Cobden TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=2 · BLS 4.5

Where RFC Sourcing Cobden falls in its industry

358 Freight forwarding establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

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 28 Freight forwarding employers in Illinois.

RFC Sourcing Cobden (38 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate RFC Sourcing Cobden
RFC Sourcing Cobden (38 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.2

RFC Sourcing Cobden has fewer employees than the Freight forwarding median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2023 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488510 · IL · Cobden

358 Freight forwarding employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 5 employers in Cobden, 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 Kuehne + Nagel Inc SAL 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Logistics 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (DAL-6331) 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LAX Branch 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Gibson City, IL 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 629 - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freeport 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Portable Warehouses (Cobden) 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR COOK SALES INC ILLINOIS 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flamm Orchards Inc 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anna Evergreen, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Bessemer AT&T 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Region 056 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Charles F. Day & Associates, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Olsson Industrial Electric DBA Garrett Electric 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Beacon Recycling, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ihop 3235 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ihop 3085 38 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: 2023, 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.