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

Kerry Melrose Park

Melrose Park, IL · ~155 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kerry Melrose Park runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade D.

Kerry Melrose Park: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kerry Melrose Park safety composite

Kerry Melrose Park scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.89 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

Kerry Melrose Park: 3.6 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2024

Kerry Melrose Park's TCR rose 1.3 from 3.6 in 2017 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Melrose Park, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #30/59
  • PHOTO Ellis Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ellis Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kerry Melrose Park in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kerry Melrose Park averages 4.2 TCR (128% 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

Kerry Melrose Park TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Kerry Melrose Park falls in its industry

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

Safer than 51% 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 #30 safest of 59 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., employers in Illinois.

Kerry Melrose Park (155 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Kerry Melrose Park
Kerry Melrose Park (155 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Kerry Melrose Park 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
2024 4.9 4.9 6 1 0
2017 3.6 3.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · IL · Melrose Park

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 · 96 employers in Melrose Park, 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 Ellis Plant 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Muskegon Sales Branch 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Macrina Bakery 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mel-O-Cream Donuts International, Inc 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Artico Cold Storage Chicago LLC 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Judlau Contracting Inc.- ILL All locations/projects 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Best Chicago Meat 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evonik 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jewel Distribution DC 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-06651 FAC-06651-MELROSE PARK-IL 1,106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gottlieb Memorial Hospital 923 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC - Ruby Street Plant 714 FTE
NAT-TCR Tomric Systems Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 01040-01-01-COLUSA 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Master Mechanical, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Saver Group,Inc dba Richmond Save-A-Lot 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Driskill 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omni Charlotte Hotel 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Iowa Therapy PC 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hearn Kirkwood 155 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.