Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour · Illinois

Kerry-Melrose Park

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

Melrose Park, IL · ~164 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Kerry-Melrose Park runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour workplace, earning a grade B.

Kerry-Melrose Park: 2.5 TCR = 77% of Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour 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 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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).

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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: 2.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2019

Kerry-Melrose Park's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.0 in 2018 to 3.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311824 · Melrose Park, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 77% of ind

DART 2.2 DART
RANK #2/10
PHOTO Kerry - Sturtevant
BOOK 2y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kerry - Sturtevant (0.0 TCR gap)

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

Kerry - Sturte

2.6
CC 300654 BRID

2.6
NISSIN FOODS U

2.6
This site

2.5
PASCO WA (COLU

2.5

What this shows Kerry-Melrose Park averages 2.5 TCR (77% of the Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour BLS benchmark).

Kerry-Melrose Park TCR series: 2018=2 · 2019=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Kerry-Melrose Park falls in its industry

170 Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, c establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, c employers in Illinois.

Kerry-Melrose Park (164 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Kerry-Melrose Park has more employees than the Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, dough median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2019	3.1	2.2	7	0	0
2018	2.0	2.0	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311824 · IL · Melrose Park

170 Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake), made from purchased flour 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Kerry - Sturtevant	STURTEVANT, WI	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CC 300654 BRIDGEVIEW PLT	BRIDGEVIEW, IL	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PASCO WA (COLUMBIA BASIN BLENDS)	PASCO, WA	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NISSIN FOODS USA	LANCASTER, PA	2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	DuPont Pioneer Woodhull WOO1	WOODHULL	164 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Belleville	BELLEVILLE	164 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Long Grove Confectionery Co	BUFFALO GROVE	164 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge	CHICAGO	164 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Jewel Distribution DC	Melrose Park	1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NAI-0032-0032-06651 FAC-06651-MELROSE PARK-IL	Melrose Park	1,106 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Gottlieb Memorial Hospital	Melrose Park	923 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC - Ruby Street Plant	Melrose Park	714 FTE
NAT-TCR	ORBIS RPM - Statesville	Statesville, NC	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Evergreen In-Home Care Services	Bend, OR	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	6400-Swy 0017 1984	Tucson, AZ	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rocky Mountain Crude Oil LLC	Greenwood Village, CO	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bluestem Irvine Distribution Complex - North Bldg.	Irvine, PA	164 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hill's Topeka Mfg	Topeka, KS	164 FTE
NAT-SIZE	TASUS	Bloomington, IN	164 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sooner Power Plant	Red Rock, OK	164 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: 2019, 2018. 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.