Pork rinds manufacturing · Illinois

Evans Food Group LTD

Chicago, IL · ~174 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Evans Food Group LTD runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pork rinds manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Evans Food Group LTD: 3.3 TCR = 79% of Pork rinds manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Evans Food Group LTD safety composite

Evans Food Group LTD scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2017→2024

Evans Food Group LTD injury rate improved

Evans Food Group LTD's TCR fell 2.4 from 5.0 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.0 · 2018=5.5 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.3 · 79% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #4/13
  • PHOTO Heartland Harvest
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~174 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heartland Harvest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Evans Food Group LTD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Evans Food Group LTD averages 3.3 TCR (79% of the Pork rinds manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Evans Food Group LTD TCR series: 2017=5 · 2018=5.5 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Evans Food Group LTD falls in its industry

253 Pork rinds manufacturing establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 13 Pork rinds manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Evans Food Group LTD (174 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Evans Food Group LTD
Evans Food Group LTD (174 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Evans Food Group LTD has more employees than the Pork rinds manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 2.6 2.1 5 0 0
2023 1.7 1.3 3 1 0
2022 1.4 1.2 9 0 0
2018 5.5 5.5 9 0 0
2017 5.0 3.6 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · IL · Chicago

253 Pork rinds 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 Heartland Harvest 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evans Food Group 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barrel o'Fun Snack Foods Co. East LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIDDLETOWN PLANT 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2065-Farmer City, IL (Monsanto Co.) 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Executive Construction, Inc. 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE El Milagro Inc. 36th 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHICAGO, IL (container) 174 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 Vroom Engineering and Manufacturing, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Creative Community Living Services South Central 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Baylor Scott & White Emergency Hospital Rockwall 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Billings Office 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Skippy Foods LLC 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brown LLC 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paradigm Delivery LLC 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE OR-Sherwood 174 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, 2018, 2017. 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.