Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, made from purchased cocoa · Illinois

Bernard foods

Evanston, IL · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.0
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Bernard foods runs at 356% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, made from purchased cocoa workplace, earning a grade F.

Bernard foods: 15.0 TCR = 356% of Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, made from purchased cocoa BLS 4.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bernard foods safety composite

Bernard foods scores safer than 1% of same-industry peers on total case rate (tcr), blended into one 0-100 breakdown. 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

1/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 35.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Bernard foods: 0.0 → 35.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 35.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.36× in 2022

Bernard foods's TCR rose 35.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 35.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311352 · Evanston, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.0 · 356% of ind

  • DART 35.3 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Production
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Production (2.9 TCR gap)

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Bernard foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bernard foods averages 15.0 TCR (356% of the Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, made from purchased cocoa BLS benchmark).

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

Bernard foods TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=9.6 · 2022=35.3 · BLS 4.2

Where Bernard foods falls in its industry

86 Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, m establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #7 safest of 7 Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, m employers in Illinois.

Bernard foods (27 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bernard foods
Bernard foods (27 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Bernard foods has fewer employees than the Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, made from p median and a higher 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
2022 35.3 35.3 3 3 0
2020 9.6 4.8 1 1 1
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311352 · IL · Evanston

86 Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, made from purchased cocoa employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in Evanston, 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 Production 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pecan Deluxe Candy Company 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc. 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Enstrom Candies Inc 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pizzo Native Plant Nursery, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE C070 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-R&D 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloomington 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern University 13,993 FTE
CITY-NEAR EVANSTON HOSPITAL 3,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITY OF EVANSTON 1,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR Citywide 1,020 FTE
NAT-TCR Silver Ridge Healthcare Center 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HG323 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 331905-Cranford Po 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HG620 15.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE True World Foods Detroit LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE MFH Sheet Metal Fabricators Corp 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Oak Day Services Center 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sand Ranch 27 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: 2022, 2020, 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.