Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Edible Cuts

Chicago, IL · ~93 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Edible Cuts runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Edible Cuts: 5.5 TCR = 251% of Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Edible Cuts safety composite

Edible Cuts scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Edible Cuts: 0.0 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.96× in 2018

Edible Cuts's TCR rose 10.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.5 · 251% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #8/13
  • PHOTO Mr Greens Produce - …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mr Greens Produce - San Antonio (0.0 TCR gap)

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Edible Cuts in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Edible Cuts averages 5.5 TCR (251% of the Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Edible Cuts TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=10.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Edible Cuts falls in its industry

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 13 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes employers in Illinois.

Edible Cuts (93 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Edible Cuts
Edible Cuts (93 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Edible Cuts has more employees than the Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2018 10.8 10.8 8 0 0
2017 5.7 5.7 5 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · IL · Chicago

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers 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 Mr Greens Produce - San Antonio 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Fruit and Produce Co. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ippolito International 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indianapolis Fruit Company 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE ILAWC Interurban 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, LaSalle Station 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinney Contractors Inc 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tecta America 93 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 NICKLES-DAYTON 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Contitech St Marys 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MTKA04 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR USC Nycon 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bombardier Transportation - Orlando - SUNRAIL 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Plastics Stuttgart 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Warehouse 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salt-Akron 93 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.