Vegetables, frozen, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Harvest Food Group

Chicago, IL · ~405 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harvest Food Group runs at 245% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetables, frozen, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Harvest Food Group: 5.4 TCR = 245% of Vegetables, frozen, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harvest Food Group safety composite

Harvest Food Group scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−10.1

2017→2022

Harvest Food Group injury rate improved

Harvest Food Group's TCR fell 10.1 from 11.5 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.5 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=8.6 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424420 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.4 · 245% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #8/14
  • PHOTO West Pico Distributo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~405 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Pico Distributors LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Harvest Food Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harvest Food Group averages 5.4 TCR (245% of the Vegetables, frozen, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Harvest Food Group TCR series: 2017=11.5 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=8.6 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=1.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Harvest Food Group falls in its industry

134 Vegetables, frozen, merchant w establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.4.

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 14 Vegetables, frozen, merchant w employers in Illinois.

Harvest Food Group (405 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Harvest Food Group
Harvest Food Group (405 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4

Harvest Food Group has more employees than the Vegetables, frozen, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.4. 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
2022 1.4 0.7 6 0 0
2021 2.9 2.4 11 0 0
2020 8.6 7.7 10 19 0
2019 2.6 2.6 8 0 0
2017 11.5 11.5 25 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424420 · IL · Chicago

134 Vegetables, frozen, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 West Pico Distributors LLC. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Seafood San Antonio, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL-MIAMI02-Miami - FL - Frez. Bldg. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sitka Salmon Shares Galesburg Warehouse 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mondelez International-Rockford Plant 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE DS Containers 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bway Chicago 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joliet 096 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR 241071-Canton Po 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 333874-Jcy-Hudson City Sta 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0017-0017-00247 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 411660-Coraopolis Po 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1855-ININD223 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE 476110-Music City Annex 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deep Foods Inc 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dresser-Rand 405 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, 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.