Meat canning, baby food, manufacturing · Illinois

The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany)

Sycamore, IL · ~77 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Meat canning, baby food, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany): 2.3 TCR = 68% of Meat canning, baby food, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) safety composite

The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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

−2.7

2016→2018

The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) injury rate improved

The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany)'s TCR fell 2.7 from 3.6 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311422 · Sycamore, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 68% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Baxters North Americ…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baxters North America of KY (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) averages 2.3 TCR (68% of the Meat canning, baby food, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) falls in its industry

67 Meat canning, baby food, manuf establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Meat canning, baby food, manuf employers in Illinois.

The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) (77 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany)
The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) (77 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 4.0

The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) has fewer employees than the Meat canning, baby food, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2018 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.2 0.0 2 0 0
2016 3.6 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311422 · IL · Sycamore

67 Meat canning, baby food, 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Baxters North America of KY 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriQual Packaging 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newport TN 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills (Hannibal) 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Albers Farm 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Facebook DKL 1 2 NEW 20126004 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Builtech Services, LLC. 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE William A. Randolph, Inc. 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb County Government 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient-AS-Sycamore Facility-00209 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sycamore 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Suter Company, Inc. 335 FTE
NAT-TCR Avera Plaza 2 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Health 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TMS Jackson MS 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Port City Custom Plastics, Mirror Image Tool and Port City Group Corporate 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Darling Ingredients Union City TN 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Dedham 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marriott Residence Inn Beverly Hills 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chippewa County Road Commission 77 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.