Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Illinois

Home Chef - Bedford Park

Bedford Park, IL · ~526 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Home Chef - Bedford Park runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade A.

Home Chef - Bedford Park: 1.9 TCR = 47% of Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Home Chef - Bedford Park safety composite

Home Chef - Bedford Park scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

Home Chef - Bedford Park: 2.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Home Chef - Bedford Park's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.0 in 2022 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Bedford Park, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 47% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #9/29
  • PHOTO Standard Process
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~526 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Standard Process (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 1.9 TCR (47% of the Food, prepared, 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: 2022=2 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Home Chef - Bedford Park falls in its industry

376 Food, prepared, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 84% 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 #9 safest of 29 Food, prepared, perishable, pa employers in Illinois.

Home Chef - Bedford Park (526 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 (526 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for median and a lower 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
2024 2.7 1.9 10 0 0
2023 1.2 1.1 9 0 0
2022 2.0 1.7 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · IL · Bedford Park

376 Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 140 employers in Bedford Park, 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 Standard Process 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor Farms Texas, Inc - Deli 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC Romeoville 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Crystal Brands 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Evapco Midwest 526 FTE
STATE-SIZE JH Associate Management LLC 526 FTE
STATE-SIZE CC 300625 DANVILLE PLT 525 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interlake Mecalux 525 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDWPW9669 MDW - OPS 1,757 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILBED - BEDFORD PARK 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR BEDFORD PARK (ILBED) 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161546-SOUTH SUBURBAN IL P&DC 834 FTE
NAT-TCR Ermco Components, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR WI114 Green Bay Broadway 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sienna Shipyards 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Coldwater Sintered Metal Products, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE LONG Building Technologies 526 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tuscaloosa Processing 526 FTE
NAT-SIZE CAMC Greenbrier Valley Medical Center 526 FTE
NAT-SIZE TTM Technologies (Anaren) 526 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, 2023, 2022. 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.