Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Waterman

Waterman, IL · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waterman runs at 375% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Waterman: 8.3 TCR = 375% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waterman safety composite

Waterman scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Waterman: 4.4 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Waterman's TCR rose 3.6 from 4.4 in 2021 to 8.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Waterman, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 375% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #94/110
  • PHOTO Garner crop location
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garner crop location (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waterman in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waterman averages 8.3 TCR (375% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Waterman TCR series: 2021=4.4 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=16 · 2024=8 · BLS 2.2

Where Waterman falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #94 safest of 110 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Illinois.

Waterman (21 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Waterman
Waterman (21 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Waterman has fewer employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 8.0 0.0 2 0 0
2023 16.0 10.7 3 0 0
2022 4.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.4 4.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IL · Waterman

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 10 employers in Waterman, 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 Garner crop location 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR River Valley Cooperative-Galva 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chromatin - Lubbock 50th 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WOODBURN, OR 868 N FRONT STREET 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frank W. Lewis & Son Seed FArms, Inc 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE RAVENS LIVESTOCK & FARMS INC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bushnell 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 21st Century Sow Farm 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterman, IL 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2508-Waterman, IL (Monsanto Co.) 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2508-Waterman, IL 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2099-Waterman, IL-STC (Monsanto Co.) 105 FTE
NAT-TCR Broadway 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR BNACB - Courtyard by Marriott Murfreesboro 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blountsville Plant 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fred Geller Electrical, Inc 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE DACO 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE M. Sullivan Construction 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hardinsburg Office 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Presidio Contracting, LLC 21 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.