Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour · Illinois

Element Food Solution

Hodgkins, IL · ~321 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Element Food Solution runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour workplace, earning a grade C.

Element Food Solution: 3.2 TCR = 97% of Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Element Food Solution safety composite

Element Food Solution scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−3.4

2021→2023

Element Food Solution injury rate improved

Element Food Solution's TCR fell 3.4 from 4.9 in 2021 to 1.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.9 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311824 · Hodgkins, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 97% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Domino's Supply Chai…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~321 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Domino's Supply Chain Center- North Carolina (0.0 TCR gap)

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Element Food Solution in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Element Food Solution averages 3.2 TCR (97% of the Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour BLS benchmark).

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

Element Food Solution TCR series: 2021=4.9 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Element Food Solution falls in its industry

170 Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, c establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, c employers in Illinois.

Element Food Solution (321 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Element Food Solution
Element Food Solution (321 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Element Food Solution has more employees than the Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, dough median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2023 1.5 1.5 5 0 0
2022 3.1 0.8 11 0 0
2021 4.9 4.3 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311824 · IL · Hodgkins

170 Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 34 employers in Hodgkins, 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 Domino's Supply Chain Center- North Carolina 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Italian Pasta Company 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mount Pleasant 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Northwest Baking Company 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flexco - Downers Grove 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1531 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5398 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2728 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILHOD - CHICAGO AREA CONSOLIDATION HUB 8,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO AREA CONSOLIDATION HUB (ILHOD) 6,953 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tara International LP 840 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1892 418 FTE
NAT-TCR C&B Builders Hardware 475 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pensacola Airport 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Savannah Grand of Bossier City 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Paving Acquisitions, LTD. 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hughes Network Systems - Manufacturing 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Connecticut Natural Gas 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prospect Airport Services DTW FLT 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main St. 321 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: 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.