Fruits dehydrating (except sun drying) · Illinois

Watershed Foods

Gridley, IL · ~114 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watershed Foods runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fruits dehydrating (except sun drying) workplace, earning a grade F.

Watershed Foods: 6.7 TCR = 204% of Fruits dehydrating (except sun drying) BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watershed Foods safety composite

Watershed Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Watershed Foods: 4.5 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2024

Watershed Foods's TCR rose 4.5 from 4.5 in 2018 to 9.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Gridley, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 204% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO JFFFI-Port
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JFFFI-Port (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watershed Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watershed Foods averages 6.7 TCR (204% of the Fruits dehydrating (except sun drying) BLS benchmark).

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

Watershed Foods TCR series: 2018=4.5 · 2019=7.2 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=8 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Watershed Foods falls in its industry

123 Fruits dehydrating (except sun establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 12 Fruits dehydrating (except sun employers in Illinois.

Watershed Foods (114 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Watershed Foods
Watershed Foods (114 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Watershed Foods has more employees than the Fruits dehydrating (except sun drying) 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 9.1 7.3 9 1 0
2023 8.0 8.0 7 1 0
2022 4.9 4.9 4 1 0
2019 7.2 4.5 8 0 0
2018 4.5 3.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · IL · Gridley

123 Fruits dehydrating (except sun drying) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 6 employers in Gridley, 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 JFFFI-Port 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Foods, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone Potato Products LLC 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR N. K. Hurst Company 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wyffels Hybrids Production 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynegy Collinsville Office 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Pioneer Park 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stoller Trucking 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omnimax 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR DiversaTech MetalFab, LLC 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR DiversaTech-MetalFab, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Seville,OH - 306 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR American Falls Agronomy 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR DeSaussure Equipment Company 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresh Venture Foods 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Woodbury Mews 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Art Hotel 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advex Corporation 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley 114 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, 2019, 2018. 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.