Apparel folding and packaging services · Illinois

Hearthside Food Solutions

Des Plaines, IL · ~500 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hearthside Food Solutions runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Apparel folding and packaging services workplace, earning a grade A.

Hearthside Food Solutions: 0.9 TCR = 37% of Apparel folding and packaging services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hearthside Food Solutions safety composite

Hearthside Food Solutions scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hearthside Food Solutions: 0.7 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

Hearthside Food Solutions's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.7 in 2020 to 1.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561910 · Des Plaines, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 37% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #17/37
  • PHOTO Menasha Packaging Co…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~500 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Menasha Packaging Company - Columbus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hearthside Food Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hearthside Food Solutions averages 0.9 TCR (37% of the Apparel folding and packaging services BLS benchmark).

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

Hearthside Food Solutions TCR series: 2020=0.7 · 2021=0.8 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Hearthside Food Solutions falls in its industry

228 Apparel folding and packaging establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 37 Apparel folding and packaging employers in Illinois.

Hearthside Food Solutions (500 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hearthside Food Solutions
Hearthside Food Solutions (500 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Hearthside Food Solutions has more employees than the Apparel folding and packaging services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 1.8 0.9 8 0 0
2023 0.6 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.8 0.5 5 0 0
2020 0.7 0.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561910 · IL · Des Plaines

228 Apparel folding and packaging services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 174 employers in Des Plaines, 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 Menasha Packaging Company - Columbus 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR IFS - PA, Hazleton Custom 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLINICAL SUPPLIES MANAGEMENT HOLDINGS, INC. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PreCon Plant 1 & 1A 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Edsal Manufacturing 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Administration 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE PPI Batavia PKG 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE LTD Aurora (Westridge) # 7 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Stark Manufacturing, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hhealt-Frmc1-Home Health-Main Office 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0325 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Henderson TX Truss 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE HID Global 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Antonio Home Care 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE Downingtown 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE Logan Health Whitefish 500 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, 2021, 2020. 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.