Commercial bakeries · Illinois

Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~404 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade C.

Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago: 3.3 TCR = 101% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago safety composite

Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago: 1.3 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2024

Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago's TCR rose 4.0 from 1.3 in 2022 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 101% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #20/59
  • PHOTO BELLEVUE NE PLANT
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~404 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BELLEVUE NE PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago averages 3.3 TCR (101% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago TCR series: 2022=1.3 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #20 safest of 59 Commercial bakeries employers in Illinois.

Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago (404 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 LLC- Chicago
Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago (404 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago has more employees than the Commercial bakeries 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
2024 5.2 4.8 24 1 0
2023 3.5 0.6 17 0 0
2022 1.3 0.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · IL · Chicago

1,014 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 BELLEVUE NE PLANT 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4 High Point NC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hazleton Bread PA Plant 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0045-0045-08111 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE ROCK ISLAND 404 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5038 404 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeview 404 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signode Industrial Products LLC 404 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 DC 81 - Bangor 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Barnhardt Manufacturing Company Griswoldville Plant 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Mount Dora 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marriott Shadow Ridge 404 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coshocton Works 404 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific 404 FTE
NAT-SIZE Groveport NLC 404 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.