Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing · Illinois

Eagle Foods WKG

Waukegan, IL · ~308 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eagle Foods WKG runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Eagle Foods WKG: 1.4 TCR = 32% of Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eagle Foods WKG safety composite

Eagle Foods WKG scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Eagle Foods WKG held a steady TCR band

Eagle Foods WKG's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.4 in 2020 to 1.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.4 · 2021=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Waukegan, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #6/35
  • PHOTO CALIFORNIA SNACK FOO…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~308 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CALIFORNIA SNACK FOODS INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eagle Foods WKG in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eagle Foods WKG averages 1.4 TCR (32% of the Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Eagle Foods WKG TCR series: 2020=1.4 · 2021=1.3 · BLS 4.2

Where Eagle Foods WKG falls in its industry

123 Popcorn, candy covered popped, establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 35 Popcorn, candy covered popped, employers in Illinois.

Eagle Foods WKG (308 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Eagle Foods WKG
Eagle Foods WKG (308 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Eagle Foods WKG has more employees than the Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 1.3 1.3 4 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · IL · Waukegan

123 Popcorn, candy covered popped, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 141 employers in Waukegan, 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 CALIFORNIA SNACK FOODS INC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills Operations, LLC. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Hershey Company-Memphis, TN 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VMS Ridgefield 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Armstrong Flooring 308 FTE
STATE-SIZE GSI : Corporate 308 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northlake IL 308 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2728 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukegan PSD #60 2,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista Medical Center 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visual Pak Waukegan 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Blending & Filling 793 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5257 Livingston, NJ 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Good Samaritan Hospital 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR George L Roma LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kendall Electric - EJKT 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville 308 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwark Metal - South Carolina Division 308 FTE
NAT-SIZE Claremont Fiber Plant 308 FTE
NAT-SIZE Packaging 308 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. 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.