Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Chicago Sales

Oak Brook, IL · ~179 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Sales runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Chicago Sales: 4.2 TCR = 192% of Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Sales safety composite

Chicago Sales scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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 Sales: 3.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2024

Chicago Sales's TCR rose 2.2 from 3.0 in 2021 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Oak Brook, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 192% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #12/46
  • PHOTO The Chefs Warehouse …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~179 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. Dallas, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago Sales in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Sales averages 4.2 TCR (192% of the Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Sales TCR series: 2021=3 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Chicago Sales falls in its industry

1,278 Bakery products (except frozen establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 46 Bakery products (except frozen employers in Illinois.

Chicago Sales (179 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago Sales
Chicago Sales (179 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Chicago Sales has more employees than the Bakery products (except frozen) merchant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 5.2 5.2 8 0 0
2023 3.5 3.5 9 0 0
2022 5.2 5.2 10 0 0
2021 3.0 2.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · IL · Oak Brook

1,278 Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 71 employers in Oak Brook, 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 The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. Dallas, TX 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wardell 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carolina Canners Incorporated 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Coffee - Northshore Sales 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 76E - Southern - IL Electric Ops 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Chicago - Department of Water Management - 3300 E Cheltenham Pl 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1038 - Alsip Production 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE VBC Biorational Research Center 179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Health Care - Shared Revenue Cycle Organization 1,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Hardware Corporate Offices 1,017 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10845 955 FTE
NAT-TCR Rustic Ridge Electric, Inc. dba S&G Electric Motor Repair 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Accurus Aerospace Athens, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Grunder Landscaping Company 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR DeVitis & Son's Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - WSD1 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prime Now LLC - UTN1 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE William Barnet & Son 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pineland Farms Potato Company 179 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.

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