Candy stores, chocolate, candy made on premises not for immediate consumption · Illinois

Nestle Itasca

Itasca, IL · ~437 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nestle Itasca runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Candy stores, chocolate, candy made on premises not for immediate consumption workplace, earning a grade A.

Nestle Itasca: 1.4 TCR = 32% of Candy stores, chocolate, candy made on premises not for immediate consumption BLS 4.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Itasca safety composite

Nestle Itasca scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

Nestle Itasca: 1.5 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.74× in 2018

Nestle Itasca's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.5 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311352 · Itasca, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 32% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO CHI
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~437 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CHI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nestle Itasca in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nestle Itasca averages 1.4 TCR (32% of the Candy stores, chocolate, candy made on premises not for immediate consumption BLS benchmark).

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

Nestle Itasca TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=0.2 · 2018=2.4 · BLS 4.2

Where Nestle Itasca falls in its industry

86 Candy stores, chocolate, candy establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Candy stores, chocolate, candy employers in Illinois.

Nestle Itasca (437 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nestle Itasca
Nestle Itasca (437 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Nestle Itasca has more employees than the Candy stores, chocolate, candy made on p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2018 2.4 2.4 11 0 0
2017 0.2 0.2 6 4 0
2016 1.5 1.3 4 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311352 · IL · Itasca

86 Candy stores, chocolate, candy made on premises not for immediate consumption employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 110 employers in Itasca, 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 CHI 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fran's Chocolates - Georgetown 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bolingbrook Cocoa 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry Owatonna 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5402 437 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gilster Mary Lee Steeleville cake 436 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kilcoy Global Foods North America 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaGrange IL Engine Plant EMD 438 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diverzify 1,004 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fellowes, Inc Itasca 536 FTE
CITY-NEAR JH Associate Management LLC 526 FTE
CITY-NEAR MTS Titan Electric 460 FTE
NAT-TCR AC Lowes US 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR S. P. Richards Company 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kelsey-Hayes Company-Fenton 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR VWR Chemicals Solon 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-PD-SBY-SALISBURY-PD 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville Manufacturing Facility 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nashua 1 437 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.