Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Finer Foods

Chicago, IL · ~99 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Finer Foods runs at 354% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Finer Foods: 7.8 TCR = 354% of Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Finer Foods safety composite

Finer Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Finer Foods: 1.7 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

Finer Foods's TCR rose 6.0 from 1.7 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 354% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Anthony Marano Compa…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anthony Marano Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Finer Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Finer Foods averages 7.8 TCR (354% of the Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Finer Foods TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=12.1 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=16.2 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Finer Foods falls in its industry

369 Berries, fresh, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

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 13 Berries, fresh, merchant whole employers in Illinois.

Finer Foods (99 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Finer Foods
Finer Foods (99 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Finer Foods has more employees than the Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2024 7.7 6.9 9 0 0
2023 16.2 15.2 16 0 0
2022 9.3 9.3 10 0 0
2021 9.4 9.4 6 0 0
2020 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2019 12.1 12.1 9 0 0
2018 4.5 4.5 3 0 0
2017 6.6 6.6 4 0 0
2016 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · IL · Chicago

369 Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers 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 Anthony Marano Company, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mr Greens Produce - Austin 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Consumer Fresh Produce Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unity Groves Corporation 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southern Illinois Power Cooperative 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landmarc Environmental Systems, LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Granite Construction Company - Illinois Region 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industrial Fence, Inc. 99 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 Indy 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clinco Sheltered Industries, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ocala 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor Foundry company 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Reichenbach Ceiling & Partition Co. 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE AD Fleet/Fleet Office 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enix Mechanical Las Vegas 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 99 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.