Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses · Illinois

Bobak Sausage Company

Chicago, IL · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bobak Sausage Company runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Bobak Sausage Company: 6.6 TCR = 201% of Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bobak Sausage Company safety composite

Bobak Sausage Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−4.8

2023→2024

Bobak Sausage Company injury rate improved

Bobak Sausage Company's TCR fell 4.8 from 9.0 in 2023 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.0 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 201% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #43/49
  • PHOTO Dietz and Watson
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dietz and Watson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bobak Sausage Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bobak Sausage Company averages 6.6 TCR (201% of the Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Bobak Sausage Company TCR series: 2023=9 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Bobak Sausage Company falls in its industry

613 Sausage and similar cased prod establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #43 safest of 49 Sausage and similar cased prod employers in Illinois.

Bobak Sausage Company (90 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 Bobak Sausage Company
Bobak Sausage Company (90 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Bobak Sausage Company has fewer employees than the Sausage and similar cased products made 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 2.5 5 0 0
2023 9.0 4.9 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IL · Chicago

613 Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses 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 Dietz and Watson 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Sausage Company LLC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Economy Locker Storage Co., Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premio Foods Inc. Brooksville 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 71G - Northern N - IL Gas Ops 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILAWC Peoria 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland Construction Services, Inc 90 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 Graham Stamping Company 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 414 Cicero 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Oakland Nursery - Dublin 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpine Rehabilitation and Nursing Center 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE ARC Abrasives Inc. 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plascon Inc. 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Richland 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Techni-Cast Corporation 90 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. 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.