Fresh poultry merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Nealey Foods Inc

Chicago, IL · ~65 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nealey Foods Inc runs at 247% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh poultry merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Nealey Foods Inc: 5.4 TCR = 247% of Fresh poultry merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nealey Foods Inc safety composite

Nealey Foods Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Nealey Foods Inc: 2.1 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

Nealey Foods Inc's TCR rose 2.4 from 2.1 in 2020 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424440 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.4 · 247% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK P48
  • PHOTO Sherwood Foods-Detroit
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sherwood Foods-Detroit (0.1 TCR gap)

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Nealey Foods Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nealey Foods Inc averages 5.4 TCR (247% of the Fresh poultry merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Nealey Foods Inc TCR series: 2020=2.1 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Nealey Foods Inc falls in its industry

46 Fresh poultry merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Nealey Foods Inc (65 employees, TCR 5.4) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 5.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nealey Foods Inc
Nealey Foods Inc (65 employees, TCR 5.4) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Nealey Foods Inc has fewer employees than the Fresh poultry merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 4.5 4.5 3 0 0
2023 7.8 7.8 5 0 0
2022 7.2 4.3 5 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424440 · IL · Chicago

46 Fresh poultry 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 Sherwood Foods-Detroit 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles Poultry Co Inc 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gingrich Animal Supply, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Egg Central Station 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience McLeansboro Production 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bluff City Materials - Corporate Office 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vector Services 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yorkville Reporting Center 65 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 DLP Wilson Medical Center - FNS 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR KECO 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nijiya Market - TR 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Douglas Company, (Inc.) 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cuyahoga Community College - EDUC 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE TIGHITCO 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yoe Construction, Inc 65 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, 2022, 2020. 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.