Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce

Chicago, IL · ~53 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce runs at 387% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce: 8.5 TCR = 387% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce safety composite

Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce: 10.1 → 17.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.04× in 2024

Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce's TCR rose 7.2 from 10.1 in 2016 to 17.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 387% of ind

  • DART 17.3 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO WILLIE ITULE PRODUCE…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WILLIE ITULE PRODUCE, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce averages 8.5 TCR (387% of the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce TCR series: 2016=10.1 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=13.8 · 2020=8.9 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=17.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 13 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in Illinois.

Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce (53 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce
Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce (53 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce has fewer employees than the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 17.3 17.3 11 0 0
2023 3.1 3.1 2 0 0
2022 6.5 6.5 4 0 0
2021 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2020 8.9 8.9 4 0 0
2019 13.8 13.8 5 0 0
2018 8.2 8.2 3 0 0
2017 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2016 10.1 10.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · IL · Chicago

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers 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 WILLIE ITULE PRODUCE, INC. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier Produce Central 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DMFP- Greensboro 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunRiver of Idaho Inc 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flamm Orchards Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Princeton IL Research-PRI2 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2505-Mason City, IL 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie State Generating Company - Corporate Office 53 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 Norfolk Air Heating and Cooling, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Transportation and Maintenance 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Utliities - Water Distribution 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Groesbeck Stamping 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE PAFB DECA Commissary 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenhill Concrete 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fabri-Tech, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Resource Recovery Plant 53 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.