Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing · Illinois

General Mills (Belvidere)

Belvidere, IL · ~583 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Mills (Belvidere) runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

General Mills (Belvidere): 1.3 TCR = 39% of Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Mills (Belvidere) safety composite

General Mills (Belvidere) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−0.6

2016→2018

General Mills (Belvidere) injury rate improved

General Mills (Belvidere)'s TCR fell 0.6 from 1.5 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.5 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311411 · Belvidere, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Brownsville Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~583 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brownsville Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Mills (Belvidere) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Mills (Belvidere) averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

General Mills (Belvidere) TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where General Mills (Belvidere) falls in its industry

224 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, a establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, a employers in Illinois.

General Mills (Belvidere) (583 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate General Mills (Belvidere)
General Mills (Belvidere) (583 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3

General Mills (Belvidere) has more employees than the Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetab median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2018 0.9 0.6 6 0 0
2017 1.5 1.3 12 0 0
2016 1.5 1.3 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311411 · IL · Belvidere

224 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 74 employers in Belvidere, 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 Brownsville Plant 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louis Dreyfus Company - Winter Garden 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florida Food Products, LLC 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FG Plant - Moses Lake 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DB Schenker Logistics 583 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeKalb County Government 583 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tootsie Roll Industries, LLC 582 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Region Sales & Office (Naperville, IL) 584 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belvidere Assembly Plant 3,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magna Exterirors Belvidere 655 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills Operations, LLC. 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3597 349 FTE
NAT-TCR Western Hills Medical Center 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR American Structurepoint: Headquarters 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR GKN Driveline Sanford 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Britco USA 1 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Company Wide 583 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transport Solutions NA and EMEA : MFG-Minneapolis, MN-USA 583 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northboro (Ma33) 583 FTE
NAT-SIZE OSRAM Hillsboro 583 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: 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.