Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries · Illinois

Hostess Brands Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~529 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hostess Brands Chicago runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade B.

Hostess Brands Chicago: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hostess Brands Chicago safety composite

Hostess Brands Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−3.7

2019→2021

Hostess Brands Chicago injury rate improved

Hostess Brands Chicago's TCR fell 3.7 from 4.8 in 2019 to 1.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.8 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #12/59
  • PHOTO ORLANDO FL PLANT
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~529 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ORLANDO FL PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hostess Brands Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hostess Brands Chicago averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Hostess Brands Chicago TCR series: 2019=4.8 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Hostess Brands Chicago falls in its industry

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 59 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., employers in Illinois.

Hostess Brands Chicago (529 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Hostess Brands Chicago
Hostess Brands Chicago (529 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hostess Brands Chicago has more employees than the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cak median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 1.1 0.4 6 0 0
2020 1.3 1.1 8 0 0
2019 4.8 3.0 36 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · IL · Chicago

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries 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 ORLANDO FL PLANT 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLACENTIA CA PLANT 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAINT PAUL MN (WOODALE DR) DEPOT 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tualatin Bakery 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Chicago Lighthouse 529 FTE
STATE-SIZE SI Building Products Americas - Buffalo Grove 530 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morey Corporation 528 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2331 Cor3005 530 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 Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation (227-984) 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Assembly/Packing Plant and Distribution Center 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nuss Truck & Equipment- Rochester 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AVANTech, Inc. - Columbia 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mewbourne Oil Company 529 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trinity Tank Car Plant 19 529 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honeywell Intelligrated WC OH0L 529 FTE
NAT-SIZE FL335 Foley Cellulose 529 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.