Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Midwest Foods

Chicago, IL · ~84 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Foods runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Midwest Foods: 1.2 TCR = 56% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Foods safety composite

Midwest Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

Midwest Foods: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2018

Midwest Foods's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #1/13
  • PHOTO Jack Brown Produce, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jack Brown Produce, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Foods averages 1.2 TCR (56% of the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Foods TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=1.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Midwest Foods falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 13 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in Illinois.

Midwest Foods (84 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Midwest Foods
Midwest Foods (84 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Midwest Foods has more employees than the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries mer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2018 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2017 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · IL · Chicago

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers 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 Jack Brown Produce, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Papania's 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MJB Sales Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Philadelphia 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Joliet Station 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schomburg & Schomburg Construction Incorporated 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE MEC DE JOINT VENTURE 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premium Concrete Inc. 84 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 East Bay District Office (Caokn) 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Perfection 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR I3 - Lake Grove 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Penske : 4876-00 Wegmans/Pottsville, PA 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phillips Companies 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops Products 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tmx2223 - Pleasanton 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE TSG Corporate 84 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: 2018, 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.