Processed meats manufacturing · Illinois

Best Chicago Meat

Chicago, IL · ~155 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Chicago Meat runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Best Chicago Meat: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Chicago Meat safety composite

Best Chicago Meat scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Best Chicago Meat: 1.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

Best Chicago Meat's TCR rose 3.2 from 1.0 in 2022 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #28/49
  • PHOTO Boar's Head Co., Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boar's Head Co., Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Best Chicago Meat in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Chicago Meat averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Best Chicago Meat TCR series: 2022=1 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Best Chicago Meat falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #28 safest of 49 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Best Chicago Meat (155 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Best Chicago Meat
Best Chicago Meat (155 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Best Chicago Meat has fewer employees than the Processed meats manufacturing 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
2024 4.2 2.1 3 1 0
2023 8.6 5.4 8 0 0
2022 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IL · Chicago

613 Processed meats 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 Boar's Head Co., Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern States Provisions 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield, Martin City Packaged 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR empirical foods, inc. - South Sioux City 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Artico Cold Storage Chicago LLC 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Judlau Contracting Inc.- ILL All locations/projects 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kerry Melrose Park 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evonik 155 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 Tribute Companies 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas Fastener, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4007 - Rochester Nail Plant 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Forest Grove Light & Power 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE County of Ventura - Information Technology Services 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Petroflex Na LLC 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oiles America Corporation 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jack Daniel Distillery 155 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. 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.