Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC

Bedford Park, IL · ~66 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
5
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC's OSHA Total Case Rate of 1.7 to the Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark of 2.2 (76% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.

-5051015 201820192020202120222024 02.2 Industry benchmarkAuthentic Brands of Chicago, LLC TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 424470.

Where Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC falls in its industry

167 Meats and meat products (excep establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 12 Meats and meat products (excep employers in Illinois.

Trend analysis for Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC

Between 2018 and 2024, Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC's Total Case Rate improved from 10.1 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 100% decrease across 6 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2019, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2018 saw the highest rate, at 10.1, a spread of 10.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 6 reporting years, Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC recorded 5 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 5 injuries shown on this page for Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC are sourced from its own 6 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 424470 - Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 118,116 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC (this establishment) 1.68 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg
Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers industry avg 2.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 424470
Illinois state avg (all industries) 4.73 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 10.1 8.0 5 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 76% of the Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers benchmark, Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC's safety grade?
Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC has a safety grade of B (Good Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 1.7 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.2 for Meats and meat products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers.
How many injuries has Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC reported?
Authentic Brands of Chicago, LLC has reported 5 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 6 years of OSHA data (2024, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2022, 2021, 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.