Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing · Illinois

Fresh Express Incorporated

Streamwood, IL · ~746 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fresh Express Incorporated runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Fresh Express Incorporated: 3.5 TCR = 85% of Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fresh Express Incorporated safety composite

Fresh Express Incorporated scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2016→2022

Fresh Express Incorporated injury rate improved

Fresh Express Incorporated's TCR fell 2.6 from 4.9 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.9 · 2017=5.0 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Streamwood, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 85% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #16/29
  • PHOTO Home Chef - San Bern…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 146 inj
  • SIZE ~746 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Home Chef - San Bernardino (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fresh Express Incorporated in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fresh Express Incorporated averages 3.5 TCR (85% of the Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Fresh Express Incorporated TCR series: 2016=4.9 · 2017=5 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=2.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Fresh Express Incorporated falls in its industry

376 Salads, fresh or refrigerated, establishments

Safer than 65% 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 #16 safest of 29 Salads, fresh or refrigerated, employers in Illinois.

Fresh Express Incorporated (746 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Fresh Express Incorporated
Fresh Express Incorporated (746 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Fresh Express Incorporated has more employees than the Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufactu 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
2022 2.3 1.1 14 11 0
2021 1.5 0.8 10 6 0
2020 2.5 1.9 17 10 0
2019 3.6 1.7 21 9 0
2018 4.7 1.9 32 10 0
2017 5.0 1.6 22 17 0
2016 4.9 2.6 30 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · IL · Streamwood

376 Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 40 employers in Streamwood, 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 Home Chef - San Bernardino 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kwik Trip Kitchens 849 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Terra Fina 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon Retail LLC - LPK1 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Freedman Seating Company 745 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DCH6 745 FTE
STATE-SIZE F H Paschen, S N Nielsen & Associates, LLC 744 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MDW6 744 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresh Express - Streamwood 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1420 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1420 341 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-591 286 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kabar Manufacturing Corp. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HG1036 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR BECK Leasing 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZWRT 746 FTE
NAT-SIZE Astec, Inc. 746 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foot Locker Corporate Services Inc. 746 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1115 Washington St SE 746 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.