Bakery machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Illinois

HFO Chicago

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HFO Chicago runs at 231% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bakery machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

HFO Chicago: 5.1 TCR = 231% of Bakery machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HFO Chicago safety composite

HFO Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

HFO Chicago: 3.6 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2023

HFO Chicago's TCR rose 3.0 from 3.6 in 2022 to 6.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Elk Grove Village, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 231% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #35/38
  • PHOTO Werner
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Werner (0.0 TCR gap)

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HFO Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HFO Chicago averages 5.1 TCR (231% of the Bakery machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

HFO Chicago TCR series: 2022=3.6 · 2023=6.6 · BLS 2.2

Where HFO Chicago falls in its industry

911 Bakery machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 38 Bakery machinery and equipment employers in Illinois.

HFO Chicago (52 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate HFO Chicago
HFO Chicago (52 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

HFO Chicago has more employees than the Bakery machinery and equipment merchant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 6.6 4.9 2 2 0
2022 3.6 3.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · IL · Elk Grove Village

911 Bakery machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, 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 Werner 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction Equipment Parts, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arc3 Gases Dunn, North Carolina 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 06040-06-06-CLACKMAS (RENTS) 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curative Health Cultivation LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2502-Ashton, IL (Monsanto Co.) 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sauget 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1240-Monmouth, IL (Monsanto Co.) 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR creative werks, LLC 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL008 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 2818 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Rapids 600 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HighamCoInc 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops 213 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advanced Roofing Systems 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Williston Hotel & Conference Center 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Troutman 52 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.