Salad dressings manufacturing · Illinois

Hidden Valley Mfg

Wheeling, IL · ~216 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hidden Valley Mfg runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Salad dressings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hidden Valley Mfg: 2.2 TCR = 53% of Salad dressings manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hidden Valley Mfg safety composite

Hidden Valley Mfg scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−1.0

2016→2024

Hidden Valley Mfg injury rate improved

Hidden Valley Mfg's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.5 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.5 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=0.5 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Wheeling, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Kerry/Fleischmann's …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~216 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar - North Rose (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hidden Valley Mfg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hidden Valley Mfg averages 2.2 TCR (53% of the Salad dressings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hidden Valley Mfg TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=3 · 2020=0.5 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Hidden Valley Mfg falls in its industry

134 Salad dressings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Salad dressings manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Hidden Valley Mfg (216 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hidden Valley Mfg
Hidden Valley Mfg (216 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Hidden Valley Mfg has more employees than the Salad dressings manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2024 1.5 0.5 3 0 0
2020 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.0 1.5 6 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 6 0 0
2017 2.6 2.1 5 0 0
2016 2.5 2.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · IL · Wheeling

134 Salad dressings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 136 employers in Wheeling, 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 Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar - North Rose 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tec Foods Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silver Spring Foods, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kens Foods Georgia 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Plumbing & Heating Company 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE BUR 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Victor Envelope Company 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE SWD Inc. 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL-01 4,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeling School District 21 967 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office - 01 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Response Team 1 728 FTE
NAT-TCR Go Exchange, LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6660 Lodi Ca 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Corrpro Malvern 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 68388 Compass Wy E Mandeville La 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Raleigh Hdq 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boysen USA Alabama, LLC 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE HWP Development, LLC 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75 216 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.