Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing · Illinois

Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL.

Bolingbrook, IL · ~267 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL. runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL.: 2.1 TCR = 51% of Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL. safety composite

Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL.: 1.8 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2019

Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL.'s TCR rose 0.6 from 1.8 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Bolingbrook, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 51% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #16/35
  • PHOTO Ferrara Candy Compan…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~267 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ferrara Candy Company - Forest Park, IL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL. averages 2.1 TCR (51% of the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL. TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2019=2.4 · BLS 4.2

Where Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL. falls in its industry

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 35 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m employers in Illinois.

Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL. (267 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL.
Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL. (267 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Ferrara Candy Company - Bolingbrook, IL. has more employees than the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2019 2.4 2.4 4 0 0
2016 1.8 1.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · IL · Bolingbrook

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 243 employers in Bolingbrook, 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 Ferrara Candy Company - Forest Park, IL 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Affton, MO 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 975 Kansas, Memphis Plant 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR James Candy Company, LLC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 104378 - Three Rivers Energy Center 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE Radiac Abrasives Inc. 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE HQ 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE North American Corporation 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL-02 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 1,368 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4818-48180018-300 E. CROSSROADS PKWY-WC 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR G&W Electric Company 935 FTE
NAT-TCR Anaheim Ca (Howell St) Depot 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunbelt Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Service Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 778 - Ontario 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fixture Pro 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plastech Corporation 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honeywell Muncie - IN51 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Contitech Mount Pleasant 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hartford Service Center 267 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, 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.