Commercial bakeries · Illinois

Chicago Heights

Chicago Heights, IL · ~149 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Heights runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade B.

Chicago Heights: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Heights safety composite

Chicago Heights scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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 Heights: 1.9 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.5× in 2022

Chicago Heights's TCR rose 3.5 from 1.9 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Chicago Heights, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #9/59
  • PHOTO Rich Products Fridley
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rich Products Fridley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Heights averages 2.2 TCR (66% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Heights TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=2 · 2022=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Heights falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 83% 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 #9 safest of 59 Commercial bakeries employers in Illinois.

Chicago Heights (149 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Heights
Chicago Heights (149 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Chicago Heights has more employees than the Commercial bakeries median and a lower 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
2022 5.4 5.4 9 0 0
2021 2.0 0.0 0 3 0
2020 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.9 0.7 4 2 0
2018 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2017 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2016 1.9 1.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · IL · Chicago Heights

1,014 Commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago Heights, 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 Rich Products Fridley 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Youngs Farm- The Annex Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OLEAN NY PLANT 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOUSTON TX (BAIRD CT) DEPOT 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mount Prospect 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plocher Construction Company 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Broeren Russo Construction, Inc. 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Regional Office - Larson 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR 2904-SAS-MT 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Davannis Inc. Plymouth 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Interactive Medical Systems 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Unique Elevator Interiors - Alameda, CA 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omnova Solutions Inc 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windsor Elk Grove Care and Rehabilitation Center 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guthrie Troy Community Hospital 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0030-0030-00130 149 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.