Food warming equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing · Illinois

Middleby Cooking Systems Group

Name: Middleby Cooking Systems Group Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Elgin, IL · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Middleby Cooking Systems Group runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food warming equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Middleby Cooking Systems Group: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Food warming equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Middleby Cooking Systems Group safety composite

Middleby Cooking Systems Group scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Middleby Cooking Systems Group: 3.8 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2019

Middleby Cooking Systems Group's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.8 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333318 · Elgin, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

DART 3.6 DART
RANK #21/28
PHOTO ATG - CHAN
BOOK 2y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ATG - CHAN (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.3
ATG - CHAN

4.3
Crescent Metal

4.3
Fragra*Matics

4.3
Philadelphia S

4.2

What this shows Middleby Cooking Systems Group averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Food warming equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Middleby Cooking Systems Group TCR series: 2018=3.8 · 2019=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Middleby Cooking Systems Group falls in its industry

361 Food warming equipment, commer establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 28 Food warming equipment, commer employers in Illinois.

Middleby Cooking Systems Group (95 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Middleby Cooking Systems Group has more employees than the Food warming equipment, commercial-type, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2019	4.8	3.6	4	0	0
2018	3.8	3.8	4	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333318 · IL · Elgin

361 Food warming equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	ATG - CHAN	CHANHASSEN, MN	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Crescent Metal Products, Inc	MENTOR, OH	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fragra*Matics	PINE BLUFF, AR	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Philadelphia Scientific LLC	MONTGOMERYVILLE, PA	4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Glenwood Reporting Center	GLENWOOD	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Astro Insulation #287	RINGWOOD	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	UJAMAA CONSTRUCTION INC	CHICAGO	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Vissering Construction Company	STREATOR	95 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Advocate Sherman Hospital	Elgin	1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son	Elgin	987 FTE
CITY-NEAR	City of Elgin	Elgin	986 FTE
CITY-NEAR	American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin	Elgin	774 FTE
NAT-TCR	AMB322 Boston	Woburn, MA	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	4603 Sacramento Millwork	Sacramento, CA	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	5472-Swy 0035 0693	Washington, DC	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Plascore Inc (Plastics)	Zeeland, MI	4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	4054-Abs 0004 0062	Casper, WY	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	4054-Abs 0016 0332	Las Vegas, NV	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	4054-Abs 0018 0513	Eugene, OR	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	4054-Abs 0021 4239	Wylie, TX	95 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: 2019, 2018. 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.