Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses · Illinois

Fontanini Foods

Mccook, IL · ~445 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fontanini Foods runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade C.

Fontanini Foods: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fontanini Foods safety composite

Fontanini Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

Fontanini Foods: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

Fontanini Foods's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Mccook, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #20/49
  • PHOTO Fair Oaks Farms - East
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 100 inj
  • SIZE ~445 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fair Oaks Farms - East (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fontanini Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fontanini Foods averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Fontanini Foods TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=5.3 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=2.5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Fontanini Foods falls in its industry

613 Meat products canning (except establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 49 Meat products canning (except employers in Illinois.

Fontanini Foods (445 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 Fontanini Foods
Fontanini Foods (445 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Fontanini Foods has more employees than the Meat products canning (except baby, pet median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 2.5 1.7 10 2 0
2022 2.5 1.1 13 0 0
2021 4.5 3.1 23 0 0
2019 5.3 4.6 25 4 0
2018 5.2 5.0 29 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IL · Mccook

613 Meat products canning (except baby, pet food, poultry) made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 37 employers in Mccook, 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 Fair Oaks Farms - East 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kenosha Beef INT' LTD 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eddy CarolinaPride LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Beef Ohio 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MKE6 445 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZNCH 445 FTE
STATE-SIZE Remote Field Sales & Field Technical Services (Work from Home Offices & in Field (Customers' Sites) 445 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elk Grove Park District 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4813-48130009-FREEMAN EXPO CHICAGO 882 FTE
CITY-NEAR 48130009-FREEMAN EXPO CHICAGO MIDWEST 567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Assemblers at McCook 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holland - CH 281 FTE
NAT-TCR Adient LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cannon-Muskegon Corporation 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 294 Lexington 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nu-Way Heating & Cooling Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tunkhannock - 279 P G Warehouse Way 445 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apex Tool Group - Apex Operations 445 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sandhills Community College 445 FTE
NAT-SIZE CORA Services 445 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, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.