Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries · Illinois

Distinctive Foods, LLC

Bensenville, IL · ~64 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Distinctive Foods, LLC runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade F.

Distinctive Foods, LLC: 6.6 TCR = 200% of Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Distinctive Foods, LLC safety composite

Distinctive Foods, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Distinctive Foods, LLC: 0.0 → 19.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 19.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.27× in 2021

Distinctive Foods, LLC's TCR rose 19.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 19.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Bensenville, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 200% of ind

  • DART 15.0 DART
  • RANK #43/59
  • PHOTO BLOOMINGTON CA DEPOT
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BLOOMINGTON CA DEPOT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Distinctive Foods, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Distinctive Foods, LLC averages 6.6 TCR (200% of the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Distinctive Foods, LLC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=19.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Distinctive Foods, LLC falls in its industry

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #43 safest of 59 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., employers in Illinois.

Distinctive Foods, LLC (64 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 Distinctive Foods, LLC
Distinctive Foods, LLC (64 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Distinctive Foods, LLC has fewer employees than the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cak 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
2021 19.3 15.0 9 0 0
2020 5.4 5.4 2 1 0
2019 7.7 7.7 2 0 0
2018 5.6 5.6 5 0 0
2017 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · IL · Bensenville

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Bensenville, 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 BLOOMINGTON CA DEPOT 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dr. Schar - Swedesboro 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turano Nevada Baking 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 67310055--FLOWERS BAKING CO. OF TUCKER, 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Central Sod 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Sod Farms, Inc 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nashville 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alliance Contractors Inc 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3Y US Foods Bensenville 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Foods Chicago 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR ORD - Main facility 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Foods Bensenville 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Peak Stucco and Stone LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Economy Locker Storage Co., Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR California Pacific Medical Center (274-CC-STL) 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vigor Works, LLC - Vancouver 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Direct Building Supplies, LLC- DBA Home ReNu 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Market 048 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scarborough Store 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 5 64 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.