Commercial bakeries · Illinois

Glendale Heights

Glendale Heights, IL · ~48 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Glendale Heights runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade D.

Glendale Heights: 5.7 TCR = 174% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Glendale Heights safety composite

Glendale Heights scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Glendale Heights: 7.3 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2024

Glendale Heights's TCR rose 1.7 from 7.3 in 2016 to 9.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Glendale Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 174% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #41/59
  • PHOTO Leeland Baking Compa…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Leeland Baking Company, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Glendale Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Glendale Heights averages 5.7 TCR (174% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Glendale Heights TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.5 · 2024=9 · BLS 3.3

Where Glendale Heights falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #41 safest of 59 Commercial bakeries employers in Illinois.

Glendale Heights (48 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Glendale Heights
Glendale Heights (48 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Glendale Heights has fewer employees than the Commercial bakeries median and a higher 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 9.0 8.0 9 0 0
2023 9.5 9.5 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2018 9.1 6.8 4 0 1
2017 8.7 5.8 6 0 0
2016 7.3 2.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · IL · Glendale Heights

1,014 Commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 85 employers in Glendale Heights, 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 Leeland Baking Company, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MILWAUKEE WI DEPOT 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MJAY's Specialty Baked Foods 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solon Bakery 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Marengo - 04WW 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kirie Water Reclamation Plant 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Focus Development, Inc. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar Multi-Family - Central (Chicago) 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks 626 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist GlenOaks Hospital 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAIN 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kronos Foods 380 FTE
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 190 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fastrak Express,Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 44 Durango 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Osborne Utility Construction LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE GA - Savannah 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Perpetual Machine Co. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Hampshire Boring Inc dba New England Boring Contractors 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medical Examiner's Office 48 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, 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.