Commercial Bakeries · Illinois

Bays Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bays Chicago runs at 312% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial Bakeries workplace, earning a grade F.

Bays Chicago: 10.3 TCR = 312% of Commercial Bakeries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bays Chicago safety composite

Bays Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Bays Chicago held a steady TCR band

Bays Chicago's TCR held near 0.0 from 10.3 in 2016 to 10.3 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.3 · 2017=10.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 312% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #58/59
  • PHOTO SPECIALTY BAKERY OF …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SPECIALTY BAKERY OF TULSA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bays Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bays Chicago averages 10.3 TCR (312% of the Commercial Bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Bays Chicago TCR series: 2016=10.3 · 2017=10.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Bays Chicago falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial Bakeries establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 59 Commercial Bakeries employers in Illinois.

Bays Chicago (40 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Bays Chicago
Bays Chicago (40 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Bays Chicago has fewer employees than the Commercial Bakeries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2017 10.3 8.3 4 1 0
2016 10.3 8.3 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · IL · Chicago

1,014 Commercial Bakeries 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 SPECIALTY BAKERY OF TULSA 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wayne NJ (Riverview Dr) Depot 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Youngstown Bakery 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franz Family Bakeries Weller 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Integrity Management 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Bloomington Reporting Center 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Downers Grove Sanitary District 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Window Works Addison 40 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 La Crosse (Wilac) 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Johnsbury (Vtsjo) 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Anderson Center (Scand) 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunbury (Pasun) 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Land Jet Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Odessa LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE RailWorks Transit 63rd Street 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5029 St. Joseph Hospital 40 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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