Tortillas manufacturing · Illinois

Azteca Foods, Inc.

Chicago, IL · ~90 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Azteca Foods, Inc. runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tortillas manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Azteca Foods, Inc.: 5.6 TCR = 169% of Tortillas manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Azteca Foods, Inc. safety composite

Azteca Foods, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Azteca Foods, Inc.: 4.8 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 64.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Azteca Foods, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.7 from 4.8 in 2020 to 6.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 64.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311830 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO La Finca Tortilleria…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: La Finca Tortilleria, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Azteca Foods, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Azteca Foods, Inc. averages 5.6 TCR (169% of the Tortillas manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Azteca Foods, Inc. TCR series: 2020=4.8 · 2021=64 · 2022=6 · 2023=5 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Azteca Foods, Inc. falls in its industry

93 Tortillas manufacturing establishments

Safer than 39% 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 7 Tortillas manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Azteca Foods, Inc. (90 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 02004006008001,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Azteca Foods, Inc.
Azteca Foods, Inc. (90 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Azteca Foods, Inc. has fewer employees than the Tortillas manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 6.5 2.8 7 0 0
2023 5.0 5.0 5 0 0
2022 6.0 1.7 7 0 0
2021 64.0 56.0 8 0 0
2020 4.8 3.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311830 · IL · Chicago

93 Tortillas manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 La Finca Tortilleria, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mission Foods Omaha 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Tapatia Tortilleria, Inc. Fresno 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mission Foods 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 71G - Northern N - IL Gas Ops 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILAWC Peoria 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland Construction Services, Inc 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Premier Select Sires, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CMMCM LLC dba Muller Construction 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lanovara Specialty Foods 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Draper CAM 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE QLS 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC Allentown,PA 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Triumph Integrated Systems 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Jac Marine, LLC 90 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.