Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liquor, syrups) made from cacao beans · Illinois

Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing

Chicago, IL · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liquor, syrups) made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade D.

Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing: 6.2 TCR = 146% of Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liquor, syrups) made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing safety composite

Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−2.0

2016→2020

Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing injury rate improved

Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing's TCR fell 2.0 from 8.0 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2019=10.6 · 2020=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 146% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO R. M. Palmer Company…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing averages 6.2 TCR (146% of the Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liquor, syrups) made from cacao beans BLS benchmark).

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

Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing TCR series: 2016=8 · 2017=0 · 2019=10.6 · 2020=6 · BLS 4.2

Where Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing falls in its industry

65 Chocolate (e.g., coatings, in establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Chocolate (e.g., coatings, in employers in Illinois.

Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing (28 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing
Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing (28 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Barry Callebaut Chicago Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liq median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2020 6.0 3.0 2 0 0
2019 10.6 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.0 8.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · IL · Chicago

65 Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liquor, syrups) made from cacao beans 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 R. M. Palmer Company - Building #3 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR R. M. Palmer Company - Building #1 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raaka Chocolate, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dandelion Chocolate 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 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 Marinemax East, Inc.-Pom 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR GM & Sons, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5272 New Smyrna Beac 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PAU:PA038 - PA038-Pauley Constr-Phoenix, A 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tanasbourne Grocery Outlet 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harlan Family Ranch 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE # 1 Cochran Collision Center of Castle Shannon 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Sandy Recc Operations Center 28 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: 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.