Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing · Illinois

Kerry Ingredients

Name: Kerry Ingredients Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~154 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.2
Avg TCR: 4.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Kerry Ingredients runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kerry Ingredients: 4.2 TCR = 101% of Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kerry Ingredients safety composite

Kerry Ingredients scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers
Fatalities: C 0

Safer than 56% 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

Kerry Ingredients: 3.9 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2022

Kerry Ingredients's TCR rose 0.7 from 3.9 in 2020 to 4.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311314 · Elk Grove Village, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.2 · 101% of ind

DART 3.3 DART
RANK #1/4
PHOTO Michigan Sugar Compa…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Michigan Sugar Company - Toledo (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Illinois employers → · Look up another →

Sweet Life Ser

4.3
This site

4.2
Michigan Sugar

4.2
Raceland Raw S

4.1
Sterling Sugar

3.9

What this shows Kerry Ingredients averages 4.2 TCR (101% of the Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Kerry Ingredients TCR series: 2020=3.9 · 2022=4.6 · BLS 4.2

Where Kerry Ingredients falls in its industry

57 Sugar, confectionery, manufact establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Sugar, confectionery, manufact employers in Illinois.

Kerry Ingredients (154 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Kerry Ingredients has fewer employees than the Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2022	4.6	3.3	6	1	0
2020	3.9	3.9	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311314 · IL · Elk Grove Village

57 Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Michigan Sugar Company - Toledo	TOLEDO, MI	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sweet Life Services, LLC	UNIVERSITY PARK, IL	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Raceland Raw Sugar LLC	JEANERETTE, LA	4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sterling Sugars, LLC	FRANKLIN, LA	3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	118 - South Capitol Bridge Builders	CHICAGO	154 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Harold O'shea Builders	SPRINGFIELD	154 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Peoria Corn Plant	PEORIA	154 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DuPont Gibson City	GIBSON CITY	154 FTE
CITY-NEAR	creative werks, LLC	Elk Grove Village	3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1855-ILARL008	Elk Grove Village	2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois	Elk Grove Village	1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER	Elk Grove Village	1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR	0029 - Roseville Ca Whse	Roseville, CA	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Marriott at the University of Dayton	Dayton, OH	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	O'Steen Brothers, Inc.	Gainesville, FL	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation (272-PAC)	San Francisco, CA	4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Rancho California Water District	Temecula, CA	154 FTE
NAT-SIZE	A.M. Ag Enterprise, Inc.	Lemoore, CA	154 FTE
NAT-SIZE	6458-ZSAC	Sacramento, CA	154 FTE
NAT-SIZE	6458-ZCHT	Chattanooga, TN	154 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: 2022, 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.