Grain mills, animal feed · Illinois

Watson Feed Mill

Effingham, IL · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watson Feed Mill runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grain mills, animal feed workplace, earning a grade C.

Watson Feed Mill: 4.3 TCR = 110% of Grain mills, animal feed BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watson Feed Mill safety composite

Watson Feed Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.9

2018→2020

Watson Feed Mill injury rate improved

Watson Feed Mill's TCR fell 3.9 from 8.4 in 2018 to 4.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.4 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Effingham, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 110% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #20/27
  • PHOTO Montgomery - Ridley …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Montgomery - Ridley Block Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watson Feed Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watson Feed Mill averages 4.3 TCR (110% of the Grain mills, animal feed BLS benchmark).

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

Watson Feed Mill TCR series: 2018=8.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.5 · BLS 3.9

Where Watson Feed Mill falls in its industry

756 Grain mills, animal feed establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #20 safest of 27 Grain mills, animal feed employers in Illinois.

Watson Feed Mill (23 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Watson Feed Mill
Watson Feed Mill (23 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Watson Feed Mill has fewer employees than the Grain mills, animal feed 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
2020 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.4 4.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IL · Effingham

756 Grain mills, animal feed employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 104 employers in Effingham, 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 Montgomery - Ridley Block Operations 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR D&D Commodities Ltd. - Stephen 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fulton Feed Mill 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Syfrett Feed Company, Inc. 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Anthony's Hospital, Effingham 762 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital 582 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAE-EFFINGHAM-3 HSHS ST ANTHONY S MEMORIAL HOSP 509 FTE
CITY-NEAR Patterson Technolgy Center 456 FTE
NAT-TCR Avamere at Albany 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : BJI - Bemidji 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tyler TY 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Newport Service Center 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wheeler 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peterson Trucks Salem 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHI Post Falls 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0000000114 Quickchek Food Stores 23 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: 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.