Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Illinois

Factor Aurora

Aurora, IL · ~2,167 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Factor Aurora runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade B.

Factor Aurora: 2.9 TCR = 70% of Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Factor Aurora safety composite

Factor Aurora scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Factor Aurora: 1.4 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2024

Factor Aurora's TCR rose 3.0 from 1.4 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Aurora, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 70% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #12/29
  • PHOTO Innovation Food Serv…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 144 inj
  • SIZE ~2,167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Innovation Food Service (0.0 TCR gap)

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Factor Aurora in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Factor Aurora averages 2.9 TCR (70% of the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

Factor Aurora TCR series: 2023=1.4 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Factor Aurora falls in its industry

376 Prepared meals, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 29 Prepared meals, perishable, pa employers in Illinois.

Factor Aurora (2,167 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Factor Aurora
Factor Aurora (2,167 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Factor Aurora has more employees than the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 4.4 3.9 108 5 0
2023 1.4 1.3 36 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · IL · Aurora

376 Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 325 employers in Aurora, 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 Innovation Food Service 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CTI Foods, LLC. Soups 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BEF Lima 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garden Highway 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rush Copley Medical Center, Inc. 2,163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3865 - Chicago Pulaski 2,173 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCI Pharma Services Rockford 2,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indian Prairie School District 204 3,309 FTE
CITY-NEAR ANDY FRAIN SERVICES INC 2,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Dreyer Clinics 1,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MDW9 1,140 FTE
NAT-TCR Alliance Automation 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ndx Muth Mumma 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Molex West Bond 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Albuquerque NW Warehouse 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlanta Hub (Gaatl) 2,167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coty USLLC 2,168 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fishel Company 2,166 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Brandt Companies, LLC 2,166 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. 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.