Tortillas manufacturing · Illinois

El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla

Chicago, IL · ~66 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla runs at 284% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tortillas manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla: 9.4 TCR = 284% of Tortillas manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla safety composite

El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−9.0

2021→2024

El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla injury rate improved

El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla's TCR fell 9.0 from 14.4 in 2021 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=14.4 · 2022=13.8 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311830 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 284% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Diana's Mexican Food…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diana's Mexican Food Products, INC (0.2 TCR gap)

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El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla averages 9.4 TCR (284% of the Tortillas manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla TCR series: 2021=14.4 · 2022=13.8 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla falls in its industry

93 Tortillas manufacturing establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Tortillas manufacturing employers in Illinois.

El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla (66 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 02004006008001,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla
El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla (66 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.7

El Milagro Inc. 21st Tortilla has fewer employees than the Tortillas manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024 5.5 4.1 4 0 0
2023 3.7 3.7 3 0 0
2022 13.8 9.7 9 1 0
2021 14.4 14.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311830 · IL · Chicago

93 Tortillas manufacturing 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 Diana's Mexican Food Products, INC 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Milagro Inc. Kedzie 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berber Food Manufacturing LLC Mi Rancho 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Milagro Inc. 21st Masa 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE NG Schaumburg Reporting Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Boldt Company - Chicago, IL 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Underground Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 66 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 Claiborne Medical Center 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Cabinet Designs 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Solid Form Fabrication, Inc. 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Health Care Center at Richland Place 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hoodoo Moab 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sorlien Electric, Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville, KY - 3600 Chamberlain Lane 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE J&S Asphalt 66 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.