Wet milling corn and other vegetables · Illinois

Tate and Lyle

Decatur, IL · ~312 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tate and Lyle runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Wet milling corn and other vegetables workplace, earning a grade A.

Tate and Lyle: 1.2 TCR = 38% of Wet milling corn and other vegetables BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tate and Lyle safety composite

Tate and Lyle scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−0.4

2016→2021

Tate and Lyle injury rate improved

Tate and Lyle's TCR fell 0.4 from 1.4 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.4 · 2017=1.4 · 2021=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311221 · Decatur, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Cargill Corn Milling
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~312 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Corn Milling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tate and Lyle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tate and Lyle averages 1.2 TCR (38% of the Wet milling corn and other vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Tate and Lyle TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=1.4 · 2021=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Tate and Lyle falls in its industry

53 Wet milling corn and other veg establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Wet milling corn and other veg employers in Illinois.

Tate and Lyle (312 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Tate and Lyle
Tate and Lyle (312 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Tate and Lyle has more employees than the Wet milling corn and other vegetables median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2021 0.9 0.2 4 0 0
2017 1.4 0.5 6 0 0
2016 1.4 0.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311221 · IL · Decatur

53 Wet milling corn and other vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 219 employers in Decatur, 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 Cargill Corn Milling 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tate & Lyle Loudon Plant 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Eddyville Iowa 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Foodservice : ST CHARLES 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lyondellbasell Morris Site 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROCKFORD 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glory Global Solutions Inc - Carrollton Operations 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Facility 2,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Memorial Hospital 1,982 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Public School District No. 61 1,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Staff Offices 1,198 FTE
NAT-TCR Bhct Bhc Judicial Facility (Court) 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kgct Superior Courthouse 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR VA Bessemer 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Amen Ranch Loc. #34 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation (272-NBHP) 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE JCI Tarboro 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sterling Avenue 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE SUEZ WTS USA, Inc. 312 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, 2017, 2016. 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.