Tortilla chips manufacturing · Illinois

Axium Foods, Inc

South Beloit, IL · ~200 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Axium Foods, Inc runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tortilla chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Axium Foods, Inc: 5.6 TCR = 136% of Tortilla chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Axium Foods, Inc safety composite

Axium Foods, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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

−8.8

2016→2024

Axium Foods, Inc injury rate improved

Axium Foods, Inc's TCR fell 8.8 from 11.1 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.1 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=5.0 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=3.0 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · South Beloit, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 136% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/13
  • PHOTO Bickel's Snack Foods…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 79 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Axium Foods, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Axium Foods, Inc averages 5.6 TCR (136% of the Tortilla chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Axium Foods, Inc TCR series: 2016=11.1 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=5 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=3 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Axium Foods, Inc falls in its industry

253 Tortilla chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #9 safest of 13 Tortilla chips manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Axium Foods, Inc (200 employees, TCR 5.6) 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 Axium Foods, Inc
Axium Foods, Inc (200 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Axium Foods, Inc has more employees than the Tortilla 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 2.3 0.0 5 0 0
2023 2.8 0.0 6 0 0
2021 3.0 1.0 6 0 0
2020 7.8 5.6 13 1 0
2019 7.4 3.4 14 1 0
2018 5.0 1.8 11 0 0
2017 5.2 1.6 10 0 0
2016 11.1 1.6 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · IL · South Beloit

253 Tortilla chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 27 employers in South Beloit, 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 Bickel's Snack Foods, WEGE 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ballreich Snack Food 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SL Snacks AZ, LLC 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE JBEC 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anning-Johnson Company Illinois 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sensient Flavors - Amboy 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nosco - Waukegan Facility 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Treehouse foods 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid-States Concrete Industries 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Altra Industrial Motion Corp 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Top Die Casting Co 151 FTE
NAT-TCR Tell City Waupaca 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Glasgow Water Company 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Florkowski Builders, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Crown Lift Trucks Orlando 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Charlotte Harbor 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Long Beach Nursing & Rehabiliation Center 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Carmel Franklinton 200 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.