Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing · Illinois

Lifeway - Morton Grove

Morton Grove, IL · ~112 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lifeway - Morton Grove runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lifeway - Morton Grove: 4.8 TCR = 146% of Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lifeway - Morton Grove safety composite

Lifeway - Morton Grove scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−2.7

2023→2024

Lifeway - Morton Grove injury rate improved

Lifeway - Morton Grove's TCR fell 2.7 from 6.2 in 2023 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.2 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Morton Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #6/20
  • PHOTO Ohio Processors, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ohio Processors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lifeway - Morton Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lifeway - Morton Grove averages 4.8 TCR (146% of the Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lifeway - Morton Grove TCR series: 2023=6.2 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Lifeway - Morton Grove falls in its industry

457 Milk, fluid (except canned), m establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 20 Milk, fluid (except canned), m employers in Illinois.

Lifeway - Morton Grove (112 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lifeway - Morton Grove
Lifeway - Morton Grove (112 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Lifeway - Morton Grove has fewer employees than the Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 3.5 2.6 4 0 0
2023 6.2 4.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · IL · Morton Grove

457 Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 50 employers in Morton Grove, 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 Ohio Processors, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clover Farms Dairy 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HP Hood - Batavia 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR hiland dairy foods LLC 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Home Forever Baths Company (DBA- Pacific Bath Chicago) 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lindblad Construction Company of Joliet, Inc. 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE G. E. Riddiford Company, Inc. 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE FE Moran Special Hazards 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DCH2 636 FTE
CITY-NEAR Xylem, Inc 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Crane Morton Grove 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fareva Morton Grove Inc 313 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakeland Supply Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Terwilliger Plaza 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Euro-Composites Corporation 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 414 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE USA San Jose 1659 Airport Blvd 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA New York 310 E 64th St 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buona Vita Inc 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper 112 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. 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.