Meat Processing · Illinois

Chicago Meat Authority

Chicago, IL · ~248 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Meat Authority runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meat Processing workplace, earning a grade D.

Chicago Meat Authority: 5.3 TCR = 161% of Meat Processing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Meat Authority safety composite

Chicago Meat Authority scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−3.4

2020→2024

Chicago Meat Authority injury rate improved

Chicago Meat Authority's TCR fell 3.4 from 7.3 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.3 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #34/49
  • PHOTO Hickman Road Plant
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~248 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hickman Road Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Meat Authority in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Meat Authority averages 5.3 TCR (161% of the Meat Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Meat Authority TCR series: 2020=7.3 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Meat Authority falls in its industry

613 Meat Processing establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #34 safest of 49 Meat Processing employers in Illinois.

Chicago Meat Authority (248 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Chicago Meat Authority
Chicago Meat Authority (248 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Chicago Meat Authority has more employees than the Meat Processing 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 4.0 3.0 8 0 0
2023 5.6 4.8 15 0 0
2022 6.1 5.8 19 0 0
2021 3.6 3.3 12 0 0
2020 7.3 6.6 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IL · Chicago

613 Meat Processing 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 Hickman Road Plant 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Distribution Plant 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jack Links Minong Plant 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emmaus Facility 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decatur Stratas Foods 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belleville Shoe Manufacturing Company 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE Champion Packaging and Distribution 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE Effingham Flex-N-Gate 248 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 Frith Construction Company, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie Farms Dairy - Rochester 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Faddegons Nursery Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 3227 - Philadelphia Art Museum 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advance Building Maintenance 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2530 - Greenland 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2503 - Hoover West 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1493 - Summerville 248 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, 2020. 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.