Agriculture production or harvesting crews · Illinois

VDF Agriculture Department

Momence, IL · ~60 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VDF Agriculture Department runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade C.

VDF Agriculture Department: 3.7 TCR = 82% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VDF Agriculture Department safety composite

VDF Agriculture Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

Rising injury rate

VDF Agriculture Department: 1.5 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

VDF Agriculture Department's TCR rose 2.2 from 1.5 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Momence, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Arce Farm Labor Serv…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arce Farm Labor Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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VDF Agriculture Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VDF Agriculture Department averages 3.7 TCR (82% of the Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS benchmark).

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

VDF Agriculture Department TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 4.5

Where VDF Agriculture Department falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Agriculture production or harv employers in Illinois.

VDF Agriculture Department (60 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate VDF Agriculture Department
VDF Agriculture Department (60 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

VDF Agriculture Department has fewer employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 3.8 1.9 2 0 0
2023 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2021 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2020 4.8 4.8 1 2 0
2019 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2018 8.2 1.4 6 0 0
2017 4.4 1.5 3 0 0
2016 1.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · IL · Momence

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 23 employers in Momence, 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 Arce Farm Labor Services, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DURAN CONTRACTING INC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Supery Estate Vineyards & Winery 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISREAL GUERRERO 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Grand Ridge, IL 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE AEP Energy - Chicago 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois American Water (Champaign) 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heatmasters Mechanical Inc 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker & Taylor Momence 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4206-00950004-950000 460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Momence Packing 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR VDF Riverview Campus 238 FTE
NAT-TCR Gunter Construction Company, Inc - Cartersville 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Electric Cooperative 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Southcoast #069 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR UPMC Chautauqua at WCA 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plastipak- Medina R&D 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE DiFazio Power and Electric LLC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Senior Living at The Ballentine 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Senior Living at Chesterfield 60 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, 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.