Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) · Illinois

Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center

Hoffman Estates, IL · ~256 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) workplace, earning a grade B.

Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center: 0.3 TCR = 58% of Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center safety composite

Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center held a steady TCR band

Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.5 in 2016 to 0.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.5 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541712 · Hoffman Estates, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 0.3 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/14
  • PHOTO Bridgewater Facility
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~256 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bridgewater Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center averages 0.3 TCR (58% of the Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) BLS benchmark).

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

Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.3 · BLS 0.5

Where Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center falls in its industry

319 Food research and development establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 14 Food research and development employers in Illinois.

Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center (256 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center
Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center (256 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8

Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center has more employees than the Food research and development laboratori median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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
2018 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541712 · IL · Hoffman Estates

319 Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 88 employers in Hoffman Estates, 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 Bridgewater Facility 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lexmark - Lexington 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miramar R&D 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR UHM/School of Medicine(JABSOM) 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Loders Croklaan USA, LLC 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE FCL Graphics, Inc. 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chemtech Plastics Inc. 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Bearing Company 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDK - Hoffman 1,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL009 ASCENSION HEALTH ST ALEXIUS MEDICAL CENTER 1,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL009 1,567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hoffman Estates Remote 673 FTE
NAT-TCR Alpharetta, George 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ACE-IT 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wakefield Container 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Air Group Building (Kyarp) 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate - DENVER 256 FTE
NAT-SIZE CN Sunnyvale 256 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olivette (PC) 256 FTE
NAT-SIZE Presbyterian Home & Retirement Community 256 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.