Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing · Illinois

Chicago Bakery

Chicago, IL · ~333 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Bakery runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Chicago Bakery: 2.4 TCR = 74% of Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Bakery safety composite

Chicago Bakery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

Chicago Bakery: 1.5 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Chicago Bakery's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.5 in 2021 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311821 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 74% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO Interbake Foods LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~333 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Interbake Foods LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Bakery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Bakery averages 2.4 TCR (74% of the Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Bakery TCR series: 2021=1.5 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Bakery falls in its industry

166 Bakery products, dry (e.g., bi establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Bakery products, dry (e.g., bi employers in Illinois.

Chicago Bakery (333 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Bakery
Chicago Bakery (333 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Chicago Bakery has more employees than the Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, co median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.5 1.4 7 0 0
2023 2.5 2.2 7 0 0
2022 3.3 2.9 9 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311821 · IL · Chicago

166 Bakery products, dry (e.g., biscuits, cookies, crackers), 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 Interbake Foods LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABIMAR FOODS South 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Frozen Foods SC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rich Products Eagan 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5399 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3725 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Student Crest Hill 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peoria Hospitals Mobile Medical Services ABA Advanced Medical Transport of Central Illinois 333 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 Specialized Towing 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Springdale Holiday Inn 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR FC: Charlotte 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Extrusions Corp 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE A.L. Helmcamp, Inc. 333 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Home Care - Pinellas 333 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willamette Farm Labor Contracting, LLC. 333 FTE
NAT-SIZE Probst Electric 333 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, 2021. 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.