Sandwich spreads, salad dressing based, manufacturing · Illinois

Kraft Heinz Company

Champaign, IL · ~1,088 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kraft Heinz Company runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sandwich spreads, salad dressing based, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kraft Heinz Company: 3.3 TCR = 79% of Sandwich spreads, salad dressing based, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kraft Heinz Company safety composite

Kraft Heinz Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2016→2017

Kraft Heinz Company injury rate improved

Kraft Heinz Company's TCR fell 0.6 from 3.6 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.6 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2017=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Champaign, IL AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 3.3 · 79% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO Ventura Foods Waukesha
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~1,088 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ventura Foods Waukesha (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kraft Heinz Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kraft Heinz Company averages 3.3 TCR (79% of the Sandwich spreads, salad dressing based, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kraft Heinz Company TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=3 · BLS 4.1

Where Kraft Heinz Company falls in its industry

134 Sandwich spreads, salad dressi establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #7 safest of 10 Sandwich spreads, salad dressi employers in Illinois.

Kraft Heinz Company (1,088 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 Kraft Heinz Company
Kraft Heinz Company (1,088 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Kraft Heinz Company has more employees than the Sandwich spreads, salad dressing based, 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
2017 3.0 0.8 17 13 0
2016 3.6 2.1 33 12 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · IL · Champaign

134 Sandwich spreads, salad dressing based, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 200 employers in Champaign, 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 Ventura Foods Waukesha 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Foods International USA Inc. 23447 Cabot 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kens Foods 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Foods 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Dredge & Dock 1,085 FTE
STATE-SIZE IL156 1,085 FTE
STATE-SIZE IL01 1,084 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGI ORD 1,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-CHAM 1,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz Champaign 918 FTE
CITY-NEAR College Fresh 840 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkland College 820 FTE
NAT-TCR Prince Minerals LLC- Leesburg 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CrossCountry Freight Solutions - Bismarck 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR EC043 - Nashville, TN-0400 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Salt Lake City (Utltc) 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE DRiV Automotive 1,088 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grifols - L.A. Campus 1,087 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medical City McKinney 1,089 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carmel Staffing Solutions 1,087 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: 2017, 2016. 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.