Potato chips manufacturing · Illinois

Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill

Crest Hill, IL · ~486 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill: 5.3 TCR = 129% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill safety composite

Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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)
F 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.3

2023→2024

Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill injury rate improved

Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill's TCR fell 1.3 from 6.0 in 2023 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.0 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Crest Hill, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #7/13
  • PHOTO Rudolph Foods Dallas
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~486 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rudolph Foods Dallas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill averages 5.3 TCR (129% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill TCR series: 2023=6 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 13 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill (486 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill
Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill (486 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Aaron Thomas Company Crest Hill has more employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 4.6 3.4 23 0 0
2023 6.0 4.6 30 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · IL · Crest Hill

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 26 employers in Crest Hill, 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 Rudolph Foods Dallas 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR GF Birmingham Manufacturing 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Event Media, Inc 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caseyville Plant 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rantoul Foods 487 FTE
STATE-SIZE Generation Brands Skokie 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : MDW5 1,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MDW5 1,509 FTE
CITY-NEAR First Student Crest Hill 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rich Products Crest Hill 332 FTE
NAT-TCR Nimsgern Steel Corp. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AGP Aberdeen Soy 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Comefri USA Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Calumet 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Patriot Erectors 486 FTE
NAT-SIZE 707 Sby1000 486 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Region : Tcu 486 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1983 Marcus Ave 486 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. 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.