Processed meats manufacturing · Illinois

Kronos Foods

Glendale Heights, IL · ~380 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kronos Foods runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kronos Foods: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kronos Foods safety composite

Kronos Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−1.4

2019→2024

Kronos Foods injury rate improved

Kronos Foods's TCR fell 1.4 from 7.8 in 2019 to 6.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.8 · 2020=3.6 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Glendale Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #35/49
  • PHOTO North Star Seafood
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 88 inj
  • SIZE ~380 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Star Seafood (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kronos Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kronos Foods averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kronos Foods TCR series: 2019=7.8 · 2020=3.6 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Kronos Foods falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #35 safest of 49 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Kronos Foods (380 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kronos Foods
Kronos Foods (380 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Kronos Foods has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing median and a higher 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 6.4 4.5 20 3 0
2023 4.3 2.3 13 4 0
2020 3.6 2.4 20 1 0
2019 7.8 5.8 35 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IL · Glendale Heights

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 85 employers in Glendale Heights, 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 North Star Seafood 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR One World Beef Packers LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Foods International USA 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rabe's Quality Meat, Inc. 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE United States Alliance Fire Protection, Inc. 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE bellwood 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE Griffith Foods Alsip 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE Griffith Foods - Alsip 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks 626 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist GlenOaks Hospital 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAIN 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cornelius_GH 380 FTE
NAT-TCR Fountainbleau Lodge 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Carter Lumber 58 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kempsville Component Plant 543 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hord Personnel Services, Inc 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nmasp - Aspen Facility 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.A.C. Ag Services, Inc 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SNJ3 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside Metro Auto Group, LLC 380 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, 2023, 2020, 2019. 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.