Soup mixes made in a dehydration plant · Illinois

Joseph's Food Products

Broadview, IL · ~250 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joseph's Food Products runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soup mixes made in a dehydration plant workplace, earning a grade F.

Joseph's Food Products: 8.0 TCR = 243% of Soup mixes made in a dehydration plant BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joseph's Food Products safety composite

Joseph's Food Products scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Joseph's Food Products: 7.7 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2024

Joseph's Food Products's TCR rose 3.7 from 7.7 in 2016 to 11.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Broadview, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 243% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #10/12
  • PHOTO Teasdale Foods
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 134 inj
  • SIZE ~250 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Teasdale Foods (0.3 TCR gap)

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Joseph's Food Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joseph's Food Products averages 8.0 TCR (243% of the Soup mixes made in a dehydration plant BLS benchmark).

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

Joseph's Food Products TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=4.6 · 2020=8.3 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=11.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Joseph's Food Products falls in its industry

123 Soup mixes made in a dehydrati establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 12 Soup mixes made in a dehydrati employers in Illinois.

Joseph's Food Products (250 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Joseph's Food Products
Joseph's Food Products (250 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Joseph's Food Products has more employees than the Soup mixes made in a dehydration plant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 11.4 10.7 29 2 0
2023 8.2 6.8 19 4 0
2022 8.4 6.9 21 1 0
2020 8.3 8.3 17 0 0
2018 4.6 4.3 12 0 0
2017 7.5 5.5 17 2 0
2016 7.7 6.9 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · IL · Broadview

123 Soup mixes made in a dehydration plant employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 56 employers in Broadview, 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 Teasdale Foods 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shelley Plant 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry Stock and Broth Company 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AVEKA Nutra Processing 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DWM-South District-1040 W. 95th Street | 1040 W. 95th St. 250 FTE
STATE-SIZE DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside 250 FTE
STATE-SIZE Granite Construction Company - Midwest Region 250 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utilitra LLC 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure's Food Specialties LLC 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mullins Food Products 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robert Bosch LLC 397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Principal Manufacturing 363 FTE
NAT-TCR Office 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mackenzie Group Inc 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Triad Transport, Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Geauga Medical Center 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spectrum Resorts 250 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #0060 250 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kelley Bros LLC 250 FTE
NAT-SIZE FPI Mechanical, Inc. 250 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, 2020, 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.