Employer · Illinois

Chicago Flour Mill

Chicago, IL · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Flour Mill runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Chicago Flour Mill: 3.0 TCR = 90% of industry BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Flour Mill safety composite

Chicago Flour Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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 Flour Mill: 1.1 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2018

Chicago Flour Mill's TCR rose 1.7 from 1.1 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #7/13
  • PHOTO Ardent Mills Harvey
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ardent Mills Harvey (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Flour Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Flour Mill averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Flour Mill TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=5 · 2018=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Flour Mill falls in its industry

209 industry establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 13 industry employers in Illinois.

Chicago Flour Mill (56 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Flour Mill
Chicago Flour Mill (56 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Chicago Flour Mill has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2021 - - 0 0 0
2018 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2017 5.0 1.7 3 0 0
2016 1.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · IL · Chicago

209 industry 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 Ardent Mills Harvey 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardent Mills Alton 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agricor Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Foods Operating Company, LLC 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bulk Power Operations 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norris Electric Cooperative 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 73G - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schaumburg Reporting Center 56 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 Koch Foods Drivers 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 857 Evans, CO 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DHMS - Corpus Christi 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Invacare Florida Operations 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Henkels & McCoy - Aberdeen, MD 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE WolfPak Transport, LLC. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cargill, Memphis 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE IntelliEPI 56 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: 2021, 2018, 2017, 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.