Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables · Illinois

Frontier Soups

Gurnee, IL · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Frontier Soups runs at 383% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade F.

Frontier Soups: 12.7 TCR = 383% of Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Frontier Soups safety composite

Frontier Soups scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

−9.8

2017→2021

Frontier Soups injury rate improved

Frontier Soups's TCR fell 9.8 from 19.7 in 2017 to 10.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 19.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=19.7 · 2018=17.6 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=10.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Gurnee, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 383% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO Idaho Pacific - Firth
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Idaho Pacific - Firth (0.6 TCR gap)

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Frontier Soups in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Frontier Soups averages 12.7 TCR (383% of the Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Frontier Soups TCR series: 2017=19.7 · 2018=17.6 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=10 · BLS 3.3

Where Frontier Soups falls in its industry

123 Freeze-dried, food processing, establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Freeze-dried, food processing, employers in Illinois.

Frontier Soups (30 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Frontier Soups
Frontier Soups (30 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Frontier Soups has fewer employees than the Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits an median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2021 10.0 0.0 3 0 0
2020 9.2 3.1 3 0 0
2019 6.8 6.8 2 0 0
2018 17.6 7.0 5 0 0
2017 19.7 13.2 3 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · IL · Gurnee

123 Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 91 employers in Gurnee, 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 Idaho Pacific - Firth 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Idaho Pacific - Center 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northland Drying LLC 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cresco Food Technologies 13.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Odell Fire 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago Loop Tech 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARDx Gurnee J54 2,661 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Wolf Lodge Illinois 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukegan 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1668 339 FTE
NAT-TCR Bkrp LLC (Atlantic Palace) 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Parks and Recreation 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1450 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Homestead Gardens, Inc. - Davidsonville 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4192-00051423-ABQ 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE MVP Logistics, LLC - West 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thermal Cool Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richert Lumber Company, Inc/ 30 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.