Baked goods (except bread, bread-type rolls), frozen, manufacturing · Illinois

Eli's Cheesecake Company

Chicago, IL · ~241 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eli's Cheesecake Company runs at 320% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Baked goods (except bread, bread-type rolls), frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Eli's Cheesecake Company: 10.6 TCR = 320% of Baked goods (except bread, bread-type rolls), frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eli's Cheesecake Company safety composite

Eli's Cheesecake Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.41 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2016→2019

Eli's Cheesecake Company injury rate improved

Eli's Cheesecake Company's TCR fell 1.0 from 9.4 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.4 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=16.1 · 2019=8.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311813 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 320% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO RFDC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 92 inj
  • SIZE ~241 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RFDC (0.4 TCR gap)

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Eli's Cheesecake Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eli's Cheesecake Company averages 10.6 TCR (320% of the Baked goods (except bread, bread-type rolls), frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Eli's Cheesecake Company TCR series: 2016=9.4 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=16.1 · 2019=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Eli's Cheesecake Company falls in its industry

94 Baked goods (except bread, bre establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

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 6 Baked goods (except bread, bre employers in Illinois.

Eli's Cheesecake Company (241 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 220 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Eli's Cheesecake Company
Eli's Cheesecake Company (241 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 220 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Eli's Cheesecake Company has more employees than the Baked goods (except bread, bread-type ro median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2019 8.4 8.4 17 0 0
2018 16.1 10.0 37 0 0
2017 8.2 7.8 19 0 0
2016 9.4 6.0 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311813 · IL · Chicago

94 Baked goods (except bread, bread-type rolls), frozen, 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 RFDC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rhino Foods Plant 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Outer Aisle Gourmet 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Bakery Products 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Miracapo Pizza Company 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manteno Rise Baking Company 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fuchs Lubricants Company 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ecolab 241 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 Whitney High School West 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 2176 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Worcester County Administration Office 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 157 Quickchek Food Store 157 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maple Leaf Farms, Inc. - MLS Processing Plant 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE #521 Hamilton Marketplace Shoprite 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio State Waterproofing 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Price Transfer Inc. 241 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: 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.