Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses · Illinois

makowski's real sausage company

Chicago, IL · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

makowski's real sausage company runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade C.

makowski's real sausage company: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

makowski's real sausage company safety composite

makowski's real sausage company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

makowski's real sausage company: 0.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2023

makowski's real sausage company's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #14/49
  • PHOTO Smithfield Wichita, KS
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield Wichita, KS (0.0 TCR gap)

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makowski's real sausage company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows makowski's real sausage company averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

makowski's real sausage company TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where makowski's real sausage company falls in its industry

613 Cooked meats made from purchas establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #14 safest of 49 Cooked meats made from purchas employers in Illinois.

makowski's real sausage company (30 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 makowski's real sausage company
makowski's real sausage company (30 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

makowski's real sausage company has fewer employees than the Cooked meats made from purchased carcass median and a lower 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
2023 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2022 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2017 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IL · Chicago

613 Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses 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 Smithfield Wichita, KS 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clinton Plant 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Villari Bros. Foods 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Beef Hummels Wharf 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Odell Fire 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago Loop Tech 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 30 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 Store 3 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Carnegie Location 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Engineering-Council Bluffs 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Lake Wastewater Treatment Facility 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cynthiana plant 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flowserve Beaumont Texas Pump Shop 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Depot 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE enTouch Systems, Inc-Richmond 30 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, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.