ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING · Illinois

Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il

Belvidere, IL · ~139 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING workplace, earning a grade F.

Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il: 7.5 TCR = 228% of ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il safety composite

Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

−1.5

2020→2024

Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il injury rate improved

Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il's TCR fell 1.5 from 8.2 in 2020 to 6.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.2 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311520 · Belvidere, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 228% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK P24
  • PHOTO Gifford's Dairy, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gifford's Dairy, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il averages 7.5 TCR (228% of the ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING BLS benchmark).

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

Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il TCR series: 2020=8.2 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il falls in its industry

111 ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUF establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il (139 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il
Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il (139 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Dfa Ice Cream - Belvidere Il has more employees than the ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 6.7 1.0 13 0 0
2023 6.7 2.2 12 0 0
2022 8.5 3.1 10 1 0
2021 7.5 2.8 8 0 0
2020 8.2 2.7 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311520 · IL · Belvidere

111 ICE CREAM FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 74 employers in Belvidere, 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 Gifford's Dairy, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dutch Creek Foods 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dippin' Dots Main Plant 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmer City, IL 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE RWE Renewables Services LLC-Wind Chicago 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advocate construction Inc 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Althoff Industries, Inc. 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belvidere Assembly Plant 3,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magna Exterirors Belvidere 655 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills (Belvidere) 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills Operations, LLC. 560 FTE
NAT-TCR Michigan Window Supply 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR StairSupplies-Plant 1W, 1614 Eisenhower Dr. North 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Granite Shore Power 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 2742 - Myrtle Beach SO 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dfa Fluid - Springfield Oh 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edgewood Hermantown I 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Worth - 13601 Independence Parkway 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charleston - 1520 Lauderdale Memorial Highway 139 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.