Vegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufacturing · Illinois

The Suter Company, Inc.

Sycamore, IL · ~335 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Suter Company, Inc. runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Vegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

The Suter Company, Inc.: 4.1 TCR = 100% of Vegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Suter Company, Inc. safety composite

The Suter Company, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

Rising injury rate

The Suter Company, Inc.: 2.8 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2024

The Suter Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.1 from 2.8 in 2019 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Sycamore, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.1 · 100% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #17/29
  • PHOTO HydroFresh HPP
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 84 inj
  • SIZE ~335 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HydroFresh HPP (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Suter Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Suter Company, Inc. averages 4.1 TCR (100% of the Vegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

The Suter Company, Inc. TCR series: 2019=2.8 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 4.1

Where The Suter Company, Inc. falls in its industry

376 Vegetables, cut or peeled, fre establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 29 Vegetables, cut or peeled, fre employers in Illinois.

The Suter Company, Inc. (335 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate The Suter Company, Inc.
The Suter Company, Inc. (335 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

The Suter Company, Inc. has more employees than the Vegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 4.9 2.3 18 1 0
2023 3.1 1.1 10 1 0
2022 6.6 2.5 24 0 0
2021 5.2 3.5 18 0 0
2020 1.9 0.6 6 0 0
2019 2.8 2.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · IL · Sycamore

376 Vegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, 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 HydroFresh HPP 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR K714-M001 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lorenzo Food Group 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor Farms Texas, Inc 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE JOLIET 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3725 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4511 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb County Government 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient-AS-Sycamore Facility-00209 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sycamore 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR 313 - Sycamore 244 FTE
NAT-TCR Essendant: Perris OE FE IE 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Penn Highlands Elk Hospital 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR American Mitsuba Corporation 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pocono Summit PA FXFE-POS 335 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pitt Ohio-Corporate 335 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Unlimited Inc. 335 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at San Diego Convention Center 335 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.