Farm supply stores · Illinois

Southern FS Inc.

Marion, IL · ~316 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern FS Inc. runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern FS Inc.: 6.1 TCR = 180% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern FS Inc. safety composite

Southern FS Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 6.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

Southern FS Inc.: 5.5 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2024

Southern FS Inc.'s TCR rose 1.0 from 5.5 in 2022 to 6.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444240 · Marion, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 180% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Store 0382
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~316 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 0382 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern FS Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern FS Inc. averages 6.1 TCR (180% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

Southern FS Inc. TCR series: 2022=5.5 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Southern FS Inc. falls in its industry

676 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 10.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Farm supply stores employers in Illinois.

Southern FS Inc. (316 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 21 employees and a TCR of 10.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern FS Inc.
Southern FS Inc. (316 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 21 employees and a TCR of 10.4

Southern FS Inc. has more employees than the Farm supply stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 10.4. 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 6.5 2.8 7 0 0
2023 6.4 1.6 6 2 0
2022 5.5 5.5 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444240 · IL · Marion

676 Farm supply stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 77 employers in Marion, 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 Store 0382 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 2212 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0247 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scottsbluff 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Donco Electrical Construction 316 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Lansing 316 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perfect Plastic Printing 316 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1668 316 FTE
CITY-NEAR AISIN MFG. ILLINOIS, LLC 1,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR USP Marion 659 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aisin Electronics 565 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3180 522 FTE
NAT-TCR CLX 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Broyles Landscaping 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Crete 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Maple Donuts 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grundfos Pumps Manufacturing Corp 316 FTE
NAT-SIZE AKITA Drilling USA Corp. 316 FTE
NAT-SIZE Care One at Holyoke 316 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kalmar Solutions LLC 316 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. 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.