Food service equipment (except refrigerated), commercial, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago

Bensenville, IL · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food service equipment (except refrigerated), commercial, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago: 4.9 TCR = 221% of Food service equipment (except refrigerated), commercial, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago safety composite

Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−4.6

2016→2018

Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago injury rate improved

Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago's TCR fell 4.6 from 9.6 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.6 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423440 · Bensenville, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.9 · 221% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO United East Bellingham
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United East Bellingham (0.1 TCR gap)

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Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago averages 4.9 TCR (221% of the Food service equipment (except refrigerated), commercial, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago TCR series: 2016=9.6 · 2017=0 · 2018=5 · BLS 2.2

Where Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago falls in its industry

118 Food service equipment (except establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Food service equipment (except employers in Illinois.

Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago (20 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago
Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago (20 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago has fewer employees than the Food service equipment (except refrigera median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 9.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423440 · IL · Bensenville

118 Food service equipment (except refrigerated), commercial, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Bensenville, 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 United East Bellingham 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franke Foodservice Systems Americas - Fayetteville 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edward Don & Company-IL 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Hotel & Restaurant Supply Corp. 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Ridge 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay Creek 4 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deer Run 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand View Farms, LLC. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3Y US Foods Bensenville 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Foods Chicago 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR ORD - Main facility 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Foods Bensenville 366 FTE
NAT-TCR KS Energy Services (Madison) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Nutrition Group 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR East Central Loading -Est 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Russellville (Arrus) 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trimark Federighi 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE KWF Gainesville, FL 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Canton, Ga. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lewisport 20 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.