Employer · Illinois

Chester Cake

Chester, IL · ~290 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chester Cake runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Chester Cake: 5.0 TCR = 152% of industry BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chester Cake safety composite

Chester Cake scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−4.0

2016→2018

Chester Cake injury rate improved

Chester Cake's TCR fell 4.0 from 7.0 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.0 · 2018=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311824 · Chester, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO Deseret Mills & Pasta
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~290 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Deseret Mills & Pasta (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chester Cake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chester Cake averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Chester Cake TCR series: 2016=7 · 2018=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Chester Cake falls in its industry

170 industry establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

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 10 industry employers in Illinois.

Chester Cake (290 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Chester Cake
Chester Cake (290 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Chester Cake has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 3.0 1.8 9 1 0
2016 7.0 3.9 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311824 · IL · Chester

170 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Chester, 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 Deseret Mills & Pasta 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HB Specialty Foods Cookeville 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nutritional Resources Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pasta Sonoma, LLC 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MZI Group Inc. 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turano Knead Dough Baking Company 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marmon 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester Mental Health Center 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR Randolph Memorial Hospital District 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 352 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR 352 93 FTE
NAT-TCR James R Thomas Construction 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Westhampton Clubhouse 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin CPC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BSL Norwood Development LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jh Routh Packing Co 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seohan USA Corporation 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wistar 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE William B. Meyer, Incorproated - Stratford 255 290 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, 2016. 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.