Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Illinois

Home Chef - Bedford Park

Chicago, IL · ~551 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Home Chef - Bedford Park runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade D.

Home Chef - Bedford Park: 7.7 TCR = 188% of Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Home Chef - Bedford Park safety composite

Home Chef - Bedford Park scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−2.7

2018→2019

Home Chef - Bedford Park injury rate improved

Home Chef - Bedford Park's TCR fell 2.7 from 9.1 in 2018 to 6.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.1 · 2019=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 188% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #24/29
  • PHOTO Red Monkey Foods, In…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 81 inj
  • SIZE ~551 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Red Monkey Foods, Inc- SF Salt (0.0 TCR gap)

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Home Chef - Bedford Park in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Home Chef - Bedford Park averages 7.7 TCR (188% of the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

Home Chef - Bedford Park TCR series: 2018=9.1 · 2019=6.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Home Chef - Bedford Park falls in its industry

376 Prepared meals, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 29 Prepared meals, perishable, pa employers in Illinois.

Home Chef - Bedford Park (551 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Home Chef - Bedford Park
Home Chef - Bedford Park (551 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Home Chef - Bedford Park has more employees than the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2019 6.4 6.2 41 0 0
2018 9.1 7.1 40 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · IL · Chicago

376 Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Red Monkey Foods, Inc- SF Salt 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knott's Wholesale Foods 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor Farms Artesian 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nanak Foods, Inc. 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wheaton 551 FTE
STATE-SIZE Par A Dice 551 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6957-ORD 552 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sangamon County 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR The Langham Huntington, Pasadena 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 1484 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 1713 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Oaks Living and Rehabilitation 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Houston Terminal 551 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleveland Sportservice, Inc. 551 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hill Country (HR) 551 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crested Butte Mountain Resort 551 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: 2019, 2018. 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.