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

Home Chef-Bedford Park IL

Bedford Park, IL · ~630 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Home Chef-Bedford Park IL runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade B.

Home Chef-Bedford Park IL: 3.1 TCR = 75% of Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Home Chef-Bedford Park IL safety composite

Home Chef-Bedford Park IL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−0.9

2020→2021

Home Chef-Bedford Park IL injury rate improved

Home Chef-Bedford Park IL's TCR fell 0.9 from 3.5 in 2020 to 2.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.5 · 2021=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 75% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #15/29
  • PHOTO E A Sween Company-Ma…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~630 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: E A Sween Company-Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Home Chef-Bedford Park IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Home Chef-Bedford Park IL averages 3.1 TCR (75% 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 IL TCR series: 2020=3.5 · 2021=2.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Home Chef-Bedford Park IL falls in its industry

376 Food, prepared, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #15 safest of 29 Food, prepared, perishable, pa employers in Illinois.

Home Chef-Bedford Park IL (630 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 IL
Home Chef-Bedford Park IL (630 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Home Chef-Bedford Park IL 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
2021 2.6 2.0 18 0 0
2020 3.5 3.1 27 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 E A Sween Company-Manufacturing 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garden Cut 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bayfront Plan 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Home Chef - Atlanta GA 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nestle 630 FTE
STATE-SIZE Honeywell 630 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vargas Group 630 FTE
STATE-SIZE ZF 629 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 Kenwood 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Metrex Research, LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ViaQuest Residential Services - Dublin 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Patriot Armored Systems, LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chinook Winds 630 FTE
NAT-SIZE HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley 630 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huntsman PNO 630 FTE
NAT-SIZE Concordia Lutheran Health and Human Care Cabot 630 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: 2021, 2020. 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.