Potato chips manufacturing · Illinois

Heartland Harvest

Kankakee, IL · ~83 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Harvest runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Heartland Harvest: 3.2 TCR = 79% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Harvest safety composite

Heartland Harvest scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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)
D 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Heartland Harvest: 0.0 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2024

Heartland Harvest's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.0 in 2019 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Kankakee, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.2 · 79% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #3/13
  • PHOTO Evans Food Group LTD
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Evans Food Group LTD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heartland Harvest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Harvest averages 3.2 TCR (79% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Heartland Harvest TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=8.9 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Heartland Harvest falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 13 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Heartland Harvest (83 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Heartland Harvest
Heartland Harvest (83 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Heartland Harvest has fewer employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 1.2 1.2 0 1 0
2021 8.9 6.7 4 0 0
2020 2.8 2.8 0 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · IL · Kankakee

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 105 employers in Kankakee, 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 Evans Food Group LTD 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evans Food Group 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barrel o'Fun Snack Foods Co. East LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIDDLETOWN PLANT 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jo-Carroll Energy - Elizabeth 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE 86 - Walsh Federal, LLC 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herlihy Mid-Continent Co. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark Roofing Co. 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR RIVERSIDE HEALTH SYSTEM - 7240724 3,145 FTE
CITY-NEAR RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTER 2,562 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kankakee SD #111 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Presence St. Mary's Hospital Kankakee 726 FTE
NAT-TCR Tweedy Transport, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Foam Fabricators, Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lumbermen's Inc. Byron Center 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Star, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manor of the Plains 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laureyns United Inc 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Diversified Polymer Products 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dyno Nobel 83 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.