Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing · Illinois

bellwood

Bellwood, IL · ~380 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

bellwood runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

bellwood: 3.5 TCR = 85% of Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

bellwood safety composite

bellwood scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

bellwood held a steady TCR band

bellwood's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.7 in 2017 to 3.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.7 · 2018=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Bellwood, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 85% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #25/35
  • PHOTO 120 S Fairbank St
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~380 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 120 S Fairbank St (0.0 TCR gap)

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bellwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows bellwood averages 3.5 TCR (85% of the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

bellwood TCR series: 2017=3.7 · 2018=3.4 · BLS 4.2

Where bellwood falls in its industry

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 35 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m employers in Illinois.

bellwood (380 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate bellwood
bellwood (380 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

bellwood has more employees than the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2018 3.4 2.9 22 0 0
2017 3.7 2.7 23 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · IL · Bellwood

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 24 employers in Bellwood, 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 120 S Fairbank St 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Humboldt TN 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Licorice Union City, CA 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jelly Belly Candy Company 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE United States Alliance Fire Protection, Inc. 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kronos Foods 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE Griffith Foods Alsip 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE Griffith Foods - Alsip 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR BorgWarner Transmission Systems LLC 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABW-BELLWOOD 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferrara Candy Company - Bellwood, IL. 463 FTE
CITY-NEAR BorgWarner Transmission Systems - Bellwood 457 FTE
NAT-TCR Morgan Truck Body LLC - MWI 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Metl-Span Shelbyville 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hazleton Cake PA Plant 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Detroit (Huber St, Wayne) 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fort Hood 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supported Employment Pasadena 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pasadena Work center 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE L.L.Frank Work Center 380 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: 2018, 2017. 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.