Vinegar manufacturing · Illinois

Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar

Chicago, IL · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Vinegar manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar: 1.0 TCR = 25% of Vinegar manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar safety composite

Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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/Fleischmann's Vinegar: 0.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 3.01× in 2023

Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 3.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 25% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Kraft Heinz
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kraft Heinz (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar averages 1.0 TCR (25% of the Vinegar manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar TCR series: 2019=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.1 · BLS 4.1

Where Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar falls in its industry

134 Vinegar manufacturing establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

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 Vinegar manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar (27 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar
Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar (27 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar has fewer employees than the Vinegar manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2023 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · IL · Chicago

134 Vinegar manufacturing 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 Kraft Heinz 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winland Foods, Inc 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Garland Plant 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GSF Conyers Liquid Products 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pizzo Native Plant Nursery, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE C070 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-R&D 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloomington 27 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 Goodwill Inn and Outreach 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stoneville-US-Research 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1706 UNION CITY, GA 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heat Waves Hot Oil Service, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hotel Becket 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Work Center 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sek Coop Inc 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fremont Riverton 27 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: 2023, 2022, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.