Powders, baking, manufacturing · Illinois

Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients

Name: Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Sycamore, IL · ~111 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Powders, baking, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients: 2.5 TCR = 62% of Powders, baking, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients safety composite

Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% 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).

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2017→2021

Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients injury rate improved

Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients's TCR fell 1.9 from 3.9 in 2017 to 2.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.9 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Sycamore, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 62% of ind

DART 2.0 DART
RANK #15/39
PHOTO Glanbia Nutritionals
BOOK 5y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Glanbia Nutritionals (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.6
Chr Hansen - W

2.6
This site

2.5
Glanbia Nutrit

2.5
GELITA USA Sio

2.5

What this shows Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients averages 2.5 TCR (62% of the Powders, baking, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=3 · 2021=2 · BLS 4.1

Where Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients falls in its industry

335 Powders, baking, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 39 Powders, baking, manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients (111 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients has more employees than the Powders, baking, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2021	2.0	2.0	2
2020	3.0	3.0	3
2019	2.9	1.9	3
2018	0.9	0.9	1
2017	3.9	3.9	5

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · IL · Sycamore

335 Powders, baking, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 44 employers in Sycamore, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Glanbia Nutritionals	WEST HAVEN, CT	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NOW Foods -Sparks	SPARKS, NV	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	GELITA USA Sioux City	SERGEANT BLUFF, IA	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Chr Hansen - West Allis	WEST ALLIS, WI	2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Powerton Station	PEKIN	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NG Bellwood Reporting Center	BELLWOOD	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Contegra Holdings, Inc. and Subsidiaries	EDWARDSVILLE	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Stenstrom Excavation and Blacktop Group	ROCKFORD	111 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DeKalb County Government	Sycamore	583 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Adient-AS-Sycamore Facility-00209	Sycamore	402 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sycamore	Sycamore	386 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The Suter Company, Inc.	Sycamore	335 FTE
NAT-TCR	Scottdale	Scottdale, GA	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hallilte Seals Americas, Inc.	Wixom, MI	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Vestar Inc.	Astoria, NY	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pride Mobility Duryea	Duryea, PA	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Kingsland Public Schools	Spring Valley, MN	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Canton Manor	Canton, MS	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cheshire Regional Rehab Center	Cheshire, CT	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	East Lake Nursing and Rehabilitation	Elkhart, IN	111 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.