Nonchocolate Confectionery Manufacturing · Illinois

ABW-BELLWOOD

Bellwood, IL · ~475 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABW-BELLWOOD runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nonchocolate Confectionery Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

ABW-BELLWOOD: 0.9 TCR = 22% of Nonchocolate Confectionery Manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABW-BELLWOOD safety composite

ABW-BELLWOOD scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−1.1

2023→2024

ABW-BELLWOOD injury rate improved

ABW-BELLWOOD's TCR fell 1.1 from 1.5 in 2023 to 0.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.5 · 2024=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Bellwood, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #3/35
  • PHOTO TNN
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~475 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TNN (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABW-BELLWOOD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABW-BELLWOOD averages 0.9 TCR (22% of the Nonchocolate Confectionery Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ABW-BELLWOOD TCR series: 2023=1.5 · 2024=0.3 · BLS 4.2

Where ABW-BELLWOOD falls in its industry

123 Nonchocolate Confectionery Man establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

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 35 Nonchocolate Confectionery Man employers in Illinois.

ABW-BELLWOOD (475 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate ABW-BELLWOOD
ABW-BELLWOOD (475 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

ABW-BELLWOOD has more employees than the Nonchocolate Confectionery Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 0.3 0.2 3 0 0
2023 1.5 1.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · IL · Bellwood

123 Nonchocolate Confectionery Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 24 employers in Bellwood, 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 TNN 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago 31st Street Manufacturing Facility 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JAMES CANDY COMPANY 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferrara Candy Company - DeKalb 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Bradford Group 475 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knox College 475 FTE
STATE-SIZE COMPASS HEALTH CENTER CHICAGO LLC 475 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elmhurst Park Distirct 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR BorgWarner Transmission Systems LLC 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferrara Candy Company - Bellwood, IL. 463 FTE
CITY-NEAR BorgWarner Transmission Systems - Bellwood 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR CCS Equipment Supply, Inc. DBA Surebuilt 386 FTE
NAT-TCR Tucker Paving, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Placentia Office 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Montrose Maintenance Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Srq Sarasota Bradenton Internationa 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Textron Aviation - IMF 475 FTE
NAT-SIZE Twinsburg Oh 475 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCC Airfoils 475 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Tomato Growers , Ltd. - Georgia 475 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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