Sweet corn farming, field and seed production · Illinois

Tolono Research

Tolono, IL · ~19 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tolono Research runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sweet corn farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Tolono Research: 7.6 TCR = 169% of Sweet corn farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tolono Research safety composite

Tolono Research scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Tolono Research held a steady TCR band

Tolono Research's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 23.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=16.6 · 2023=23.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Tolono, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P26
  • PHOTO Linda Vista Farms
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Linda Vista Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tolono Research in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tolono Research averages 7.6 TCR (169% of the Sweet corn farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Tolono Research TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=16.6 · 2023=23.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Tolono Research falls in its industry

331 Sweet corn farming, field and establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Tolono Research (19 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Tolono Research
Tolono Research (19 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Tolono Research has fewer employees than the Sweet corn farming, field and seed produ median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 23.3 0.0 2 0 0
2022 16.6 8.3 2 0 0
2021 7.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 6.2 6.2 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · IL · Tolono

331 Sweet corn farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 6 employers in Tolono, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Linda Vista Farms 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR COACHELLA FARMING 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelena Farms, Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MERRILL FARMS LLC 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gingerich Farms Partnerships 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Hillcrest 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Morgan Acres, LLC. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaMoine Valley Farms, LLC. 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR APEX 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tolono Fire Protection District 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Area - Tolono 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monical's Pizza Tolono 24 FTE
NAT-TCR ASPC- Winslow 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cottonwood County Public Works 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Portland - All Others 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ptcr Poplar Bluff 7.6 TCR

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, 2018. 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.