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

Blommer Chocolate Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~253 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blommer Chocolate Chicago runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liquor, syrups) made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade C.

Blommer Chocolate Chicago: 4.0 TCR = 95% of Chocolate (e.g., coatings, instant, liquor, syrups) made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blommer Chocolate Chicago safety composite

Blommer Chocolate Chicago scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−0.9

2017→2020

Blommer Chocolate Chicago injury rate improved

Blommer Chocolate Chicago's TCR fell 0.9 from 3.2 in 2017 to 2.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.2 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 95% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Cargill
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~253 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blommer Chocolate Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blommer Chocolate Chicago averages 4.0 TCR (95% 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

Blommer Chocolate Chicago TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=2.3 · BLS 4.2

Where Blommer Chocolate Chicago falls in its industry

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

Safer than 37% 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 #7 safest of 8 Chocolate (e.g., coatings, in employers in Illinois.

Blommer Chocolate Chicago (253 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Blommer Chocolate Chicago
Blommer Chocolate Chicago (253 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Blommer Chocolate Chicago has more 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 2.3 1.3 7 0 0
2019 3.7 2.3 11 0 0
2018 6.7 3.9 18 1 0
2017 3.2 1.8 9 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 Cargill 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 750 Pine Street 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, NA - Mount Joy 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blommer Chocolate East Greenville 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 09 - Walsh/Shea Constructors 253 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ferrara Candy Company Chicago 31st Street Manufacturing Facility 253 FTE
STATE-SIZE BRETT ANTHONY FOODS 253 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elk Grove IL (Large) 253 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 North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : SDF8 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bake'n Joy Foods North Andover Facility 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eureka Metal & Glass Services, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions-Memphis 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sysco St. Louis 253 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : HNL - Honolulu 253 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peterson Hillsboro 253 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marriott Richmond 253 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.