Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing · Illinois

Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL

Bloomington, IL · ~274 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL: 3.1 TCR = 74% of Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL safety composite

Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL: 3.2 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2020

Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL's TCR rose 1.7 from 3.2 in 2018 to 4.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 74% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #22/35
  • PHOTO Affy Tapple, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Affy Tapple, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL averages 3.1 TCR (74% of the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL TCR series: 2018=3.2 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=4.9 · BLS 4.2

Where Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL falls in its industry

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m establishments

Safer than 57% 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 #22 safest of 35 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m employers in Illinois.

Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL (274 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL
Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL (274 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington 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
2020 4.9 4.5 12 2 0
2019 1.2 0.8 2 1 0
2018 3.2 2.1 4 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · IL · Bloomington

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 182 employers in Bloomington, 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 Affy Tapple, LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Just Born Incorporated 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waymouth Farms Inc 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Lucks Company LLC 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Berglund Construction Company 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkay Plumbing Products Company Savanna 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nascote Industries - Mockingbird Road 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0835 - West Schaumburg 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Medical Center 989 FTE
CITY-NEAR OSF Saint Joseph Medical Center 919 FTE
CITY-NEAR The City of Bloomington 901 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bloomington Public Schools, District 87 855 FTE
NAT-TCR Abramson Home Care 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR WW2 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR WCTractor 13 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Interic Specialties, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Sidney 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glaxo Smith Kline LLC DPC 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warren Performance Packaging 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE SageWest Healthcare 274 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.